Anything related to the genealogy of my grandkids. Surnames include: Broekman, Gast, ten Bruggencate, Seidler, Tiffany, Richstein, and many more
Maps are a wonderful resource, they help you visualize the surroundings of your ancestors and their journeys. For the Netherlands there are two very interesting sites: Watwaswaar.nl (what was where) and HISGIS.nl (Historical Geografic Information System). Both are interactive sites with maps of the Netherlands. Neither has an English interface, but watwaswaar has …
Almelo, the town my father’s family came from is still a small town, and certainly it was in the 18th and 19th century. As a result, people tended to marry their relatives. My second great-grandfather Hendrik Jan ten Bruggencate (dutch link) is a case in point. His first wife Aaltje Selhorst …
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, …
I remember very well that in Drachten we did not yet have running water, but we had a pump. A copper pump …
According to family lore, Rose Goldman was married twice, the second time to a Samuel Edelman. The children of her first marriage …
The family of August Seidler was a bit of a mystery. I knew he was married twice, but had no hard data on …
I came across an interesting database: Europeana. It is a cooperative venture of a number of European institutions such as libraries and …
