When I find new ancestors, I also try to find out about their children – at least their BMD. In my early genealogy days, I sometimes skipped this, in my haste to go further back in time. I’m revisiting a few of those families now. One of those families is...
My grandparents were roughly the same age, there was less than five years between the eldest and the youngest. The eldest was my paternal grandfather, Henk (Hendrik, officially) van Kampen. As the eldest son of the eldest son, I was named after him. Opa Henk, as we,...
Dirk Veerman is a son of my 3rd ggrandparents Gijsbert Veerman and Jannetje Bronkhorst, numbers 34 and 35 in my ahnentafel. Earlier this summer I wrote about him: Dirk Veerman, born on 10 September 1839 in Huizen, died on 11 May 1870 in Bloemendaal. Dirk never...
Naatje Foppen (1792-1864) was my 4th great-grandmother, number 108 in my ahnentafel. She was the child of a single mother, and became a single mother herself. I know very little about her, and even less about her parents. She is the first brick wall in my ahnentafel...
When I search for ancestors, I usually reconstruct their families, i.e. I find information on all their children (and other spouses, if they married more than once). There are a few families I skipped in the past, though, probably because I wanted to go back in time...
