Recent Posts Tagged With 'hoekstra'

• Surname Saturday: HOEKSTRA

  Posted on Saturday August 22nd, 2009 at 04:00 in hoekstra, surname saturday

  The HOEKSTRA line is my maternal grandmother's line. The name is Frisian and means "from the corner." In English, it is pronounced "HOOK-struh." There are many, many people with this surname whose roots originated from the provinces of Friesland and ...

• Bling! Bling! My Garnet Ring

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 04:00 in strong, hoekstra, i smile for the camera carnival

  This garnet ring once belonged to my maternal grandmother, Ruth Lillian HOEKSTRA VALK DeVRIES. It's probably not extraordinarily valuable, although it does have four genuine garnets and is made of 14K gold. Garnets are not my birthstones; aquamarines...

• 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...

• Friday Findings: My Swedish Line, KLAP, MIDKIFF, DICKINSON, Free and Low-Cost Resources

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 11:18 in dickinson, hoekstra, midkiff, gustavson, frugal genealogy

  On Sunday, I worked on my adoptive great-grandmother's (Ida Carlotta GUSTAFSDOTTER) Swedish line. Anna-Karin had done some lookups for me with her resources quite a while ago and using the information she found, I was able to then trace back another ...

• Friday Findings: A Potluck of Goodies

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 18:52 in strong, robbins, hoekstra, friday findings

  This week brought a hodgepodge of different genealogical goodies my way!The Photo AlbumI've been reviewing and analyzing the contents of a photograph album/scrapbook that my maternal great-grandmother kept (one of the items my uncle brought out to us...