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John wrote:

> I just thought I would share this.
>
> I have ancestors from Holland/Germany/France/Belgium with the name
> Duckers/Dukers/Duijkers/Dukkers. Thanks to a marvellous website
> http://genlias.nl run by the Dutch Authorities it is now fairly easy to
> search for ancestors and obtain documents for at least the dutch
> branches of
> ancestors, this site is growing all the time and is (Strangely) aimed at
> Family Historions and is entirely free.
>
> My main point though is from actually doing some research on that site
> and
> finding out how easy it is to miss an ancestor/relative because of the
> vagaries of people writing down information. In the past 2 days I
> have been
> after marriages by or with a "Dukers" branch. One particular family
> had a
> few children married within a short number of years all at the same
> Registry
> Office. There are 5 marriages of 4 children (one being of a widow
> married

[one line below fails in Netscape 7.1 ok in MIE 6 why?]

> earlier)these marriages apart from the one took place


> 1826/1828/1829/1829/1842. The Mother of the Bride or Groom was on
> different
> occasions named: Rongen/Roncken/Rongh/Ronghen/Rongh. This in a space
> of 3
> years and then a second marriage for one widowed daughter in 1842.
>
> No wonder we family historians have a tendency toward insanity shown
> daily by
> our having heated conversation with our computers and the websites we
> go to.
>
> But isn't it fun trying to unravel what others try to do to confuse us
> :-)
> At least the Genlias site leaves these misspellings or whatever they
> are easy
> to see and recognise.
>
> Wish we had something similar in the UK, they (The Dutch) even have
> the site
> in English as well as Dutch. Genlias 2.1 - Home in English
>
> Oh well, Onward and Upward.
>
> John Jones
>
>
>
>
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