(Mostly) Obituaries of Hollanders in Bergen County
Jacob Wassenaar was born 17 Apr 1881 in Het Bildt, Friesland. He married Sjoukje Lingsma there, and they had five children, three daughters and two sons. Sjoukje died in 1915. and in 1921 the family packed up and immigrated to the US. It is not entirely clear, why they emigrated, …
One of the sadder stories I have come across while going through the Bergen County newspapers, is that of Mrs. Ellen Van Wettering, nee McNamara. She married Simeon van Wettering before 1876, as their first son John is born in 1876 in New Barbadoes, Bergen County. They have 8 children …
I am involved with Genealogical Society of Bergen County, and we are doing an indexing project of one of the local papers, the Hackensack Republican. We index all mentions of births, marriages, engagements, and deaths, as well as birthdays, anniversaries, and funerals. In the meantime you get to read a …
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 …
While I was providing obituary look-ups for the Genealogical Society of Bergen County, I would come across many people who had, like me, immigrated from the Netherlands. I started collecting the obituaries, and posting them to the web. Eventually I developed a small database, and did some additional research to …
