I found an image of Theodorus’ WW1 Draft Registration Card. Here’s what his signature looks like:
Feb 262006
Feb 232006
I noticed there are a lot of new visitors to the website. I’m averaging 45 page views per day now. The odd thing is that these are page views for living individuals.
If you haven’t been to the website before, please take a moment to read the Privacy Policy. Also, if you believe you are part of this family or connected to the family, please consider registering for a User account. Details for all individuals are visible to Users who have logged in.
Lastly, don’t waste time copying incomplete information from the pages. As a User, full Group Sheets are available, and I’m working on a project behind-the-scenes that will make a text file of the complete tree available to Users, who can then open and print it from their home computer.
Membership has benefits!
ex animo ~J
Feb 162006
99 new individuals have been added to the Adrian Hofland line, including several ancestor records from Noord-Hollands Archief that I didn’t have previously. Many new birth, marriage and death records were also added for exising individuals of that line, but I didn’t keep track as I updated those.
One interesting observation I made as I was “sorting” Hofland names into family groups…there are several Norwegian families in the Minnesota counties surrounding Otter Tail that have the same surname, which appears to be a variation of “Hovland”. Those of you who know the history behind the Dutch and Norwegians in that neck of the woods might get a chuckle out of that bit of trivia.
ex animo ~J
Feb 152006
There are 6,288 individuals in the database as of this moment. If you visited the website between last Friday and this morning you may have noticed the server down or a problem with page loading. There were 3 intermittent server problems that I noticed, and behind the scenes I had a database table corruption, which I assume was caused by the server problem.
Because of the corruption I was unable to add records until I had time to troubleshoot the cause and make a repair. I reloaded that particular table data last night and as far as I can tell, everything is working up to par since. Thank the back-up ghods>
Meanwhile, I’ve continued to gather birth, marriage and death records. A conservative estimate of those that I still need to enter sits well over 1000. Most of those records are for collateral lines of descent; names who married into the Sweere line.
Because most of the records are entered into indexes in alphabetical order, I have found that the most efficient way for me to get them into our database is to copy-paste them into a text file, and then work within the text file, by sorting them into families. It saves me time not having to switch between families for each individual alphabetically arranged record while I’m making additions.
Expect to see Dykhoff, Buysee, Stollenwerk, Hofland, Riddering, De Bruyn, Rutten, Geiser and Leimkeuhler additions in the near future from the more recent generations.
I have the following United States Sweere individuals ‘unplaced’ in my notes. If anyone can tell me who they belong to, I would appreciate the help.
Debra Ann Sweere married to John Carl Berg, Minnesota.
Barbara Mary Sweere married to Dean Joseph Frisch, Minnesota.
Patricia Alvina Sweere married to James Normand Murphy, Minnesota.
Jacqueline Rae Sweere married to Duane Jerome Polman in Minnesota.
Rachael Ann Sweere married to Robert Michael Reardon in Minnesota.
Judith Kay Sweere married to Michael James Richter in Minnesota.
Timothy James Sweere married to Julie Suzanne Mellies in Minnesota.
Gerald Sweere married to Betty Jean Johnson in Minnesota.
Brian John Sweere married to Kelly Jo Sandvig in Minnesota.
Judith M. Sweere married to Gary L. DeRosier in Minnesota.
Sherri L. Sweere married to Justin A. Erickson in Minnesota.
Shirley M. Sweere married to Ross M. Weber in Minnesota.
? Sweere, married to Kim D. Marquardt in Outagamie,Wisconsin, 1978.
A special thanks to Dick & Wilma Sweere, Rollie Richards, Cees Sweere, Daniel Meyers, and John & Kathy Sweere for their patronage. Your help is appreciated more than you know.
A warm welcome to new users, Leslie Sweere and Kelly (Hoff) Clifton-Bulger. It’s great to have you aboard!
ex animo ~Jodi
Feb 112006
142 birth records were added this week from the Minnesota Department of Health’s Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002. Of those, approximately 20 were pre-existing. 21 birth records were added from the California Department of Health’s California Birth Index, 1905-1995.
16 marriage records were added from the Minnesota Department of Health’s Minnesota Marriages Index, 1997-2001. 21 marriage records were added from the Wisconsin Department of Health’s Wisconsin Marriages Index, 1973-1997.
All new citations include the certificate number.
Earlier in the week I spent a few evenings working on my son’s surname line, Korth. I made great progress via the censuses. Along those lines, I finally discovered why a search of the 1930 census didn’t turn up any Sweere’s in Minnesota (we know they were there!). Apparently the census indexer incorrectly listed the name as Sweese. Boo. Hiss. I found the mistake by utilizing a surrounding neighbor’s search function on the index. I knew the Sweere farm was near the Polman farm in Butler, so I after coming up with nothing on several searches I finally searched the neighbor’s of Polman’s and walla! There was Henry and Willemina Sweere in Butler township…with their name misspelled a Sweese! More Polman info was added, too.
It’s all good.ex animo ~J