Featured Koninkrijk der Nederlanden- paspoort

I found the two together, father and son, both Christiaan Johannes Gerardus ten Krooden, dad a bricklayer, son a carpenter:
https://www.openarch.nl/nha:a6ddf274-d9f4-4b57-98ad-3129e58cf50f

The son left a son, Johan Peter, who doesn't seem to have had any children:
https://www.openarch.nl/nha:23aa56ff-c8d8-4342-a242-75f5fb501976

 

This is great Any Jewelry. Thank you so much

 

Which you all have, so they've got you down to a T.

 

Very interesting. Thanks again

 

I bet someone would want it. I found a lady's wedding photo proofs (not the real ones on fancy paper, just samples a photographer sent out so the couple could pick the ones they wanted) and a pile of family photo negatives and other paper. Put the photos up on eBay for not a lot, figuring someone would want the dress, which was killer. A guy doing family geneaology bought it and asked if I had anything else. Sold it to him for what I paid plus the postage, and had a happy camper.

 

tradition plays a big role in it. passports - pffff, who needs them; my garanpa laughed when my uncle proudly showed him his first passport; gramps rambled to Russia down to Turkey back to Switzerland without any passport between 1900 and 1914. crossing the border at night and always a sharp knife in the sock.
family papers ? what for ? you don't know anyway if your registered father is the real one... mom had the "bulge"... so another child at the table wasn't a problem, wasn't the child's fault...
I never forget the eyes of the French officer when he asked me to become French and I told him that another plastic card has no value because it's the person that counts and not the papers and registrations.

 

pffffff....I'm always proud to show my Canadian passport....!

 

as long as you don't try to speak French...

 

Where's a frog icon when you need one?

I've watched enough stories on Finding Your Roots and Who Do You Think You Are to know a lot of family stories are just that. My dad was my biological father, no question, but I've always kind of wondered whether my mom's mom was her mother or her aunt was.(LOL) She doesn't look that much like her mother, but she's a dead ringer for Grandma's younger sister!

 

Well well.... A little bit of family mystery and intrigue

 

I don't know that there's any real way to be sure. My great aunt died unmarried and childless as far as anyone knows. My cousins and I come up as first cousins on the ancestry DNA tests, so it's one for the "oh well" file.

 

many people are proud of being part of The Melting Pot, don't they ?