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Why I started in the first place…
Genealogy isn’t generally a hobby of people aged below 70 (no offence). And I’m 36 at this time. Why did I start? The reason is a medical one. My son was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis in 2006 and I wanted to know where the heck that came from. I now know that genealogy wasn’t going [...]
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How to search your Dutch Ancestry?
To say it’s simple would be wrong. But there is a lot of information available, even on the internet. Let’s just post a simple step-by-step plan to get you started. 1. Start with you and the things you know. Try to get back at least a 100 years or things will be difficult! 2. The [...]
My name is Kossen
Where to start? Well, myself would be good…. My family name is Kossen. What’s that you say? Yup, Kossen. So what does it mean? Kossen is in fact similar to Jansen, a common dutch name which means so much as son of Jan, Janszoon – Janszn – Jansen (or janssen). Kossen means son of Kos. [...]
What am I going to do?
Well, A new blog, so this question is appropriate. What am I going to do with a blog about genealogy? Here’s the idea i had: I have allready done quite some genea-research so I have a file, a large one to be precise. In that file there is a load of information of which some [...]
Hello world!
Let’s create a blog about genealogy…. It’s my hobby, so I must be able to write at least something about it???? Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress. Tweet This Post
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