While quite a few of the American side of my grand kids ancestors served in the Civil War, one of their Dutch relatives was also a soldier for the North. Jan Willem Gast (dutch link) was on both sides related to my ancestors. On his mother’s side he was a grandson …
I decided to try to get an overview of where the lacunae in my grand-kids genealogy are. So I printed a 12 generation fan chart. It was immediately clear that most work was done on my own genealogy: all of the 64 ninth generation boxes were filled in, and 74 …
Gerrit Hendrik Broekman (dutch link) came from Melle in Germany to Amsterdam before 1786. In that year he marries Maria Bruijn. At his marriage he is living in the Gasthuismolensteeg, a small street in the heart of Amsterdam. Maria is living at the same address. The name Gasthuismolensteeg means the alley …
Caecilia Mayer (dutch link) was the seventh of ten children, four boys and six girls. She was born in 1880 in Schifferstadt, Germany, and for reasons that are not known to me, she was at some point boarded with her uncle Isaac Mayer (dutch link) and his wife, who were childless. She …
