Today, we are looking at the church membership record of Gaucke Gauckes (1670). Transcription Anno 1670, den 22en Aprillis, sijn tot het getall der Gemeente gecoomen, deese navolgende– Benne Douwes: obiit den 16en Januarij 1682– Gaucke Gauckes, overleden den 4 Novembris 1672– Jan Taekes,– Fockien Meinsma, overleeden den 2en Majus 1670– Minke Jacobs, huisvrouw van Read more…
Today, we are looking at the marriage record of Marie Haverbeke (1910). Translation Today, the third of May nineteen hundred ten, appeared before me, civil registrar of the municipality of IJzendijke, in order to marry:– Petrus Carolus Clement Haverbeke, 24 years old, farmer by profession, born in IJzendijke and living in IJzendijke, adult son of Read more…
We all love old photographs, do we not? Especially the really old ones that show generations of our family that we never met. They give us an idea about our ancestors: what did they look like? The photographs connect us with those relatives from the past. But what if you do not have photographs of Read more…