As an introduction: I am a member of the Genealogical Society of Bergen County, and we are indexing the birth, death and marriage announcements in the Hackensack Republican,” one of the local papers. While looking through the newspaper during my indexing session, I noticed the following news item in the issue …
Heinz was the only son of Bernard Voss (dutch link) and Claire Hellenthal. We don’t know much about them. We don’t know when Heinz was born, or when he died. And this picture of the dapper little boy in his white sailor’s suit does not really give an inkling of the life he …
My maternal grandparents Ulpen and Afina de Haan (dutch link) were the first ones in the family to have a car! It was a Goggomobil, a German micro car. Here they are standing proudly next to car. Their license class did not allow them to go faster than 20 km …
My great-grandfather Barend ten Bruggencate (dutch link) looks like a very proper and dignified person. However, he seems to have been quite a rascal in his youth. Barend attended the Latin School in Almelo. He apparently was not a model student, according to this report of the teacher: “Bart ten Bruggencate …
In 1907 the grocery store of Derk Jan ten Bruggencate (dutch link) in Nijverdal burned to the ground. The paper reports the following NIJVERDAL Saturday night there was another fire in our town. There were none for a while, and we hope we are not entering another period of fires, like …
Among the items that go onto our Christmas tree every year is this glass boat. It looks a bit dilapidated, but it …
While I was providing obituary look-ups for the Genealogical Society of Bergen County, I would come across many people who had, like …
Radburn, NJ became a National Historic Landmark Site in 2005. It was planned in the late 1920’s by Clarence Stein and Henry …
Where the name ten Bruggencate originates, is not clear. Huizinga (1) explains it as a small farm (a “kate” or “kotterstede”) near …
The ancestors of my grandchildren are a diverse lot. On my side they are all in the Netherlands (Overijssel (Gast, ten Bruggencate) …
