I have a lot of genealogy projects I need to work on and posts I want to write, but it’s a busy time of the year, and so I am going to use today’s post to make my list and to show you what will be coming up here as well (bolded will be blog posts):
- I have more results from Yvette Hoitink to share. One is about the Mulder family and how they made their living in Goes, the Netherlands. This also relates to me and an occupation I have had in my life. So have my parents and my grandparents and great-grandparents. Any guesses?
- Work on the occupations of my family in the Netherlands.
- Check into the location of Etaples.
- Work on my tree branch that connects to the Van Gessel family.
- Write a post about my (Klein) connections with the Van Gessel family.
- Update my tree with all the new information I have gotten from many sources.
- Go through new information from Grady.
- Write a post on the Flipse update and the DeSmits (one or two posts)
- I plan to reorganize the pages of this blog (not the posts, but the pages, which are tabbed at the top of the page). I want to organize pages by family branch: DeKorns, Zuidwegs, Mulders, etc.
- Brook Lodge
- Harold Remine
- Alice Leeuwenhoek Moerdyk
- Organize newspaper clippings and photos and eventually prepare posts
After I do all the above, there will be plenty more to do, including finding out more about some of these photos I have. Here is one of a boy in “Nymegen,” according to the name on the photo. W. Ivens is the photographer. But so many mysteries. Who is W. Ivens? When was the photograph taken? Is Nymegen the same city as Nijmegen? If so, it’s a city on the opposite (eastern) side of the Netherlands than my relatives came from. Nijmegen is almost to the German border. It’s on the Waal River, which is the main distributary branch of the Rhine River and flows through the Netherlands. Who is the boy? Why is he so far from Goes?
The Family Kalamazoo 
Sounds like you have plenty to keep you busy! Looking forward to reading about your progress.
Thanks, Laura! So much so that I had to make the list to keep from feeling completely overwhelmed!
Thankyou so very much!!! … This post resonates with me at the deepest of levels, particularly because I am NOT a person who creates lists unless my whole world seems to be flying out of control which is exactly what is happening right now.
Time to now write a list… indeed it is!!! Thanks again 😆
Oh I’m so glad to hear that the post helps you! I have such a chaotic brain that I need lists every single day ;). Have fun with yours!
Good planning! Once you get things written down the research goes so much better because there is more focus. I also like your idea to organize the entries by family name.
For the occupation you have in common with your parents and great grandparents, does it connect in any way with teaching?
I so need to write down lists, and I hadn’t done that for the genealogy and it was all swimming in my brain and getting overwhelming. Thanks re the organization. I am hoping that it will help to organize now that I am over a year out with this blog and see where the trip has taken me.
Good guess, EmilyAnn! But that’s not it! But it sure makes sense because my grandmother trained as a teacher, my mother got a degree in teaching business classes and was a student teacher, and I taught. But, no, it’s another occupation . . . .
Way to be organized by making a list. My family history project list (in my head) is really, really long…I should follow your example and put in on paper. Great idea!
Definitely, put it all out on paper. Get it out of your head and burden the paper with it ;). Then it won’t be seem like quite so much!
Exciting plans! Are you related to the Moerdyks?
Grandpa’s cousin, Alice Leeuwenhoek, married Clarence Moerdyk. So in that way I am related to the Moerdyks. Clarence and Alice didn’t have any children.
I saw this this morning and found it very inspiring. A list of things to do — simple genius.
Haha, thanks, Leslie! I hope you start your right away!
Hey, Luanne! My mother and her family were from Nijmegen. Nymegen was an alternative spelling before the ij combination was deemed acceptable Dutch!
Ian, wow, thanks. That is so cool that you answered the first question. So glad to know that it’s true they are the same place. I didn’t realize the ij combination wasn’t a part of Dutch all along–that’s good to know, too. Maybe we’re related ;).
Maybe you’ve already found this, but check out this page on historical Nijmegen-based photographers: http://www.noviomagus.nl/Kabinetfoto/Fotografen.htm
My Dutch is pretty poor, so I have to use Google translate on such sites–but you can get the gist. Ivens is listed there, with samples of his work. I think a later relative became a relatively famous fimographer (Joris Ivens).
BTW–Noviomagus was the Roman name for Nijmegen.
We really should compare notes one day!
This website is great! Thank you so much for it. I love seeing the other photos. There is a photo on there that seems to be a very very similar “set” to my photo. The throw over the table is shorter in the website, and my photo is “closer up” I think. But it really seems the same. If you take a look at the photo labelled Cdv. Wilh. Ivens, Houtstraat 20 Nymegen, Tel. No. 107 I wonder what you think?
I had seen Joris Ivens online and wondered if they were related!
I think that photo in the website is very similar to yours. Not only the table and throw, but the window in the corner to the right appears identical too. Looking at the notes at the bottom of the website, they mention that the phone number (shown in the photo that’s so similar to yours) started to be listed in 1889, so I would say your picture dates after that point. Do you have the full card with the information on the back? It would show the address and phone number as further clues to help you date it…
I love this kind of detective work in genealogy!
I am going to have to pull out the original photos. I’ve stored them so that they are safe and so many of them I didn’t bother to scan the backs! But that is a good idea.
I also like to make lists–and enjoy checking items off the list as they are completed even more.
I’m not sure if it’s just fooling myself or a way of organizing, but it feels like the latter . . . .
Looking forward to seeing these posts! 🙂
Su, I’m sidetracking in my next post tomorrow. But next week I’ll be on that list!
That’s how I feel about my “top 10”
list. I just keep finding new stuff to write about.
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