The marriage certificate of my 3rd great-grandparents, Volkert van Kampen and Maria Hogenbirk. A summary: Volkert van Kampen, weaver, 24, born in ‘s-Graveland, resident here [in Hilversum], son of Cornelis van Kampen, factory worker, and Lijsje Scheepmaker, both...
Grave of Pieter van Kampen (1912-1992) and Geertje Relleke (1915-2002). Both Pieter and Geertje are my (distant) relatives: Geertje’s mother Jannetje Wiesenekker is a sister of my great-grandmother Geertje Wiesenekker, while Pieter’s great-grandfather...
I recently showed you my 11-generation matriline. Let’s have a look now at the patriline. A patriline or fathers-line is (unlike the matriline) a traditional genealogy chart. Y-DNA and (usually) surnames are inherited through the patriline. With ten generations,...
