Research about emigrated families

Research: details of families that emigrated

2006

In October I found Ancestors, a site of Ton van Heusden.
It has much information about the families in Zeeland: select genealogy, and name.
In contrast to the most archives, the persons in his database are linked, and with a few mouse clicks one can go to the ancestors or descendants.
With this information, I could add more persons to the genealogy of 'van Hanegem' and 'de Gardeijn'.

This site is also very useful for finding families that emigrated to America. Select emigrants and name to get a list.

2007

On the website Ellis Island records, the emigration details of the 'van Hanegem' family can be found.
Search "van hanegem" gives these results: "Exact Matches (17)"

nr.	name of Passenger	Residence	Arrived	Age on Arrival
1.	Abrah. van Hanegem		1897	0
2.	Alescander van Hanegem	Zuidzande, Holland	1908	21
3.	Alexander van Hanegem	Zuidzande, Holland	1911	24
4.	Cath. van Hanegem		1897	27
5.	Cornelia van Hanegem		1905	1
6.	Fanna van Hanegem	Cadsand, Holland	1912	22
7.	Francois van Hanegem		1905	5
8.	Hendrick van Hanegem	Cadzand, Holland	1911	18
9.	Hendrik van Hanegem	Kadzand	1902	43
10.	Henrik van Hanegem	Cadsand	1901	18
11.	Jan van Hanegem		1897	28
12.	Cornelia van Hanegem	Retrancement	1905	1
13.	Neeltje van Hanegem		1905	3
14.	Petronella van Hanegem		1905	27
15.	Pieter van Hanegem		1905	26
16.	Susanna van Hanegem		1905	2
17.	Susanna van Hanegem	Retrancement	1905	25

Note: Cadzand is spelled in three different ways! (also in the old documents)

The family name changed to "Vanhanegem", Pieter became Peter, and the (French) name Francois became Frank
See: link to family Genealogy van Hanegem.

Additional information can be found on ancestors:

Information from origin:			Arrival at New York:
Residence	Departure	Destination	Ship	Arrival date
Zuidzande, NL	01 Mar 1905	North America	Statendam	23 Mar 1905

On the site of familysearch one can look at the US Social Security Death Index
Search with the name "vanhanegem" in State NY gives many records, with birth dates.

Two examples of Individual Record

Peter VANHANEGEM
Birth Date:	17 Sep 1893
Death Date:	Feb 1970
Social Security Number:	073-09-5744
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued:	New York
Death Residence Localities
ZIP Code:	14621
Localities:	Rochester, Monroe, New York

Frank VANHANEGEM
Birth Date:	24 May 1899
Death Date:	Mar 1976
Social Security Number:	071-18-3901
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued:	New York
Death Residence Localities
ZIP Code:	14505
Localities:	Marion, Wayne, New York

Many people from Holland are buried in Wayne County, see: Wayne County NYGenWeb site
Click on the Cemeteries button (lower left in menu) to go to 'cemetery' pages.
Example, see: Lakeview Cemetery Part 3 with many people from the Netherlands.

In October I invesigated familysearch. Much research was done by Arie Leeflang. from a descendant I learned, that Arie passed away in February 2007.

familysearch: value

last / family - name
year
country
Life Event: Birth, Christening, Marriage

Example search

results:

Results and Pedigree resource file

click on results gives details of the record in the database.
the 'Pedigree Resource File' gives more information about parents / children.
use a 'Year range' +/- 2, 5 or 10 for marriages.
From the birth date one can search for a marriage after 25 years with a range of +/- 5 years.

much is contibuted by Arie (deceased 2007):

By hitting the link 'Submission Search' his contibutions can be watched (e.g.) 'van Leeuwen'.

2008

In April I visited the Central Bureau for Genealogy in the Hague, with a few members of the division Amsterdam of the Duch Genealogical Association.
I found the death announcement of my great grandfather: Dirk van Leeuwen; here you see Sientje van Leeuwen was married to A.C. Bowden, and lived in Melbourne, Elwood (Victoria) Australia.
To get this death announcement, I made an "educated guess", from more than 700 pages of advertisements (till 1970), I choose page 200, and had a direct hit!

CBG archive

2009

In April I discovered, that newspapers from the 'Leiden' area: 'Leidsch Dagblad', 'Leidsche Courant' and 'Nieuwe Leidsche Courant' before 1900 are scanned, and can be seen at: Archief Leiden: kranten (newspapers)

Example: Death announcement ("Advertentie") Sophia van Groeningen:

Source: HDC Media/Leidsch Dagblad Leidsch Dagblad: (newspaper) 16 December 1897: page 4

From this advertisement, I learned, that her daughter 'Sientje' first went to South-Africa ("Z.A. Republic"), before going to Australia. She had a relation with N.J. Silvius.

In June I received a letter and a lot of pictures from descendants of de Gardeijn, see: de Gardeijn (Dutch) with (miniature) pictures or de Gardeijn (English): emigration to Williamson, Wayne, New York state.
The pictures are in the album: map 'Gardeijn_Elve'

2010

In May I received a "Persoons Kaart" of Johanna Christina van Leeuwen (source: CBG), who died on April 4, 1944 in Amsterdam.
See: (father) Nicolaas van Leeuwen The husband Aart remarried, and from the descendants I learned, that two sisters emigrated to Canada in 1951 and 1953, and I made contact with Aaltje 'Ali' van Leeuwen, she stayed in the Netherlands.

Ali allowed me to make a copy of the marriage booklet of her parents, see:

marriage booklet Nicolaas van Leeuwen and Aaltje Stolk

2021

Een site with many links to US sources is:
backgroundchecks.org Genealogy: The Complete Resource Guide