The Coleman family originates from Belgium and the Netherlands, with branches dating back to the early 1300s. Jacobus Kooijman, our fifth great grandfather on our mother's mother's side, was born in Boschkapelle, in the Zeeland region of the Netherlands. His mother was from Belgian Flanders, and her family had deep roots in the region dating back to the 1500s.
These are just a couple tips and tricks to make your family history research more productive and less overwhelming. Using city emblems for profile avatars is one of the top five tricks to get the most out of the tree view,
Ancestry, heredity, genealogy, ethnicity, nationality, culture, and heritage are just a few of the terms that are often used interchangeably, despite having distinct meanings and connotations. Let's unpack the terminology and explore these differences.
The Zeeland knob is a symbol of the province's cultural identity and has become an iconic element of traditional Zeeland costume.
Family research isn't always easy. More often than not there are roadblocks and dead ends. Trying to find the birthplace of one ancestor has proven especially challenging. Read about how we went about trying to solve the mystery.
One of the best ways to understand our ancestors' world is to get a bird's eye view of it using maps. Maps can show an outline of how our family moved through time, place to place. Tracking a family's movements over time on a map can also provide clues, if not answers, to as yet unsolved family secrets and mysteries. Here are some tips you can use.
The holiday season is a great time to gather information and share family stories. It's a time when families come together and have the opportunity to talk and reminisce about the past.
Mother Nature neither lies, nor forgets; the scars and features of her body carry the memories.
A croft is a small agricultural unit, and the person who lives on this land is called a crofter. Crofts are usually rented, akin to sharecropping, and are located in one of the crofting areas designated by the government in Scotland. Crofters live on and work the land. They are tenants of the person who owns the land (the croft), but some of the tenants have now bought their crofts and become owner-occupiers. Traditionally, croft land is used to raise animals and grow vegetables.
"The early modern period (c. 1500-1800) witnessed profound political, religious and social change in Scotland. What began as an independent Catholic kingdom closely aligned with France ended as a stateless Protestant nation formally united with England."
Discovering family stories: A shipwreck and drowning off Port of Aberdeen Scotland in 1853 and 1880.
One of the best ways to understand our ancestors’ world is to get a bird's eye view of it using maps. In this way we can feel directly connected to our personal history as well as the history of our place on the planet.