Friday, September 10, 2021
Ancestral Discoveries: An Ancestor named Geert!
One of my long-standing little wishes in my Dutch genealogy was to find an ancestor named Geert. For some reason, I've always liked that name. And now I've found one- on my Bentheim side! My 6th great-grandmother, Fenne Tijink, died in Scheerhorn, Grafschaft Bentheim on December 12, 1863 and was buried at Arkel four days later. Her burial record lists her parents as Geert and Harmine Gruskamp! So there's one little wish down, as well as another interesting surname, and some more unanswered questions on my Bentheim side.
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