User talk:Howardvanheemstra

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van Heemstra, Doorn & Java [29 June 2011]

As far as I can retrieve, the family van Heemstra (or just a few members of the family) did only live in Doorn, Utrecht from 1896 on. In the official publication about the Dutch peerage concerning the van Heemstra-family: Nederland's Adelsboek Vol. 84 (1994) there is no record of Leone A.E. van Heemstra. A few members did live in Java, but none of them early enough to have a child born around 1875. I don't have access to the sources (colonial civic records) of former Nederlands-Indië nowadays Indonesia.--Klaas (Ekjansen) 02:34, 29 June 2011 (EDT)