User:Pkeegstra

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Ahnentafeln

• Myself
• My Girlfriend

My Paternal Grandparents and Great-Grandparents

• Neale Paul Keegstra
• Paul Keegstra
• Hattie Kamp Keegstra Koeze
• Elizabeth Catherine Ritzema Keegstra
• Jacob Ritzema
• Katherine Dekker Ritzema

My Maternal Grandparents and Great-Grandparents

• Melvin Houseman
• Berend (Ben) Houseman
• Hattie Schols Houseman
• Rena Bouma Houseman
• Doeke Gale Bouma
• Trijntje de Jong Bouma

My Favorite and Prominent Relatives

• Jean Connie Keegstra-DeBoer, Christian Reformed hymn writer
  (third cousin twice removed)
  (common ancestors are Kornelis Renzes Keegstra and Sjoertje Tietes Faber)
• Charles Peter Spoelhof, satellite remote sensing pioneer and Calvin College Distinguished Alumnus
  (second cousin once removed)
  (common ancestors are Cornelius Keegstra and Elizabeth Woldyk)
• Dr. Clarence Bouma, professor at Calvin Seminary
  (great-uncle)
  (common ancestors are Doeke Gaele Bouma and Trijntje Johannes de Jong)

My Girlfriend's Great-Grandparents

• Hubert W. Rider
• Lena Belle Vought
• William H. Griffith
• Belle Banks Griffith
• Dr. Lincoln Robinson Gibbs
• Kate Maria Peters Gibbs

My Girlfriend's Favorite and Prominent Relatives

• Dr. Lincoln Robinson Gibbs, Professor of English at Antioch College
  (great-grandfather)
• Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower community at Plymouth
  (eleventh great-grandfather and twelfth great-grandfather)
• Rev. Phillips Brooks, hymn writer and Episcopal bishop
  (fourth cousin four times removed)
  (common ancestors are John Stimson and Ruth Wyer)
• Bing Crosby
  (third cousin twice removed)
  (common ancestors are Isaac Lincoln and Mary (Polly) Foster)

Various Curious People and Families

• This family has two sons named Jacob Jans, both of whom lived to adulthood (my great-great-great-uncles).
• This family has two sons named Gosse Jans, both of whom lived to adulthood.
• This family has a Klaas and a Nicolaas both of whom lived to adulthood.
• This family had two pairs of (fraternal) twins, and all four lived to adulthood.
• This Friesland resident and his descendents have a surname which sounds rather Eastern European (probaby a son of this person from Krakov).

Other Websites for My Family

I would like to acknowledge here websites which record subsets of my family and the families of the spouses of my siblings.

My Family

• "Lowensteyn Family"
  Example person: Cornelis Hendrik Schols (b 1849)

• Genealogy of Pondes and Related Lines
  Example person: Metske Hoesman (b 1855)

Spouses of my Siblings

• "Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven"
  Example person: Donald Morris (b 1912)

User and MySource Pages

• User:Pkeegstra/ToDo List

Railroads and Interurbans of West Michigan

(During a key period in the development of Michigan and the American Midwest, the railroads were the crucial linkages mediating that development. Since World War II they have lost that role to the interstate highways, and I would welcome a similar project to tie interstate exits to WeRelate places.)

• User:Pkeegstra/Interurban Lines of West Michigan

Calvin College

• Presidents of Calvin College
• Namesakes of Calvin College dormitories

Dordt College

• Presidents of Dordt College

Charter Members of Christian Reformed Church Congregations

• MySource:Pkeegstra/Charter Members of First CRC, Lynden, Washington