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  • Friday Findings: DeVRIES and other Dutch Lines

    Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 11:51 in Virginia, chaplin, hoekstra, devries, friday findings, jonker

    The last couple of weeks have just been rather crazy and chaotic, and although I did have some great finds, keeping up with blogging about it wasn't easy.The first big find was when Henk van Kampen read my DeVRIES Surname Saturday post and left a com...

  • Surname Saturday: DeVRIES

    Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 11:17 in devries

    I have never thought about my mother's step-father as being a step-ancestor. He raised my mother, tried unsuccessfully to adopt her (her biological father wouldn't sign over his parental rights, although he didn't participate much in my mother's life...

  • Wordless Wednesday: The DeVRIES Siblings

    Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 08:36 in wordless wednesday, devries

    Calvin, Catherine, Adrian, Millard & Benjamin DeVries. C. 1938. Original photograph privately held by Brian DeVries, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Belmont, Michigan. 2009....