• General Items

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• . . . . . Families covered

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• . . . . . General information about this Information

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• . . . . . Surnames and corresponding municipalities

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• . . . . . Remarks and/or additional data

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• . . . . . Statistics

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• . . . . . Symbolic and abbreviations

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• . . . . . Old handwriting

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• . . . . . French professions

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• . . . . . Translation of some Dutch words

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Note : Not everything on this website can or will be translated into English.

Families covered

This site has the purpose to publish our family tree(s), so other members ( or descendants of the ancestors of ) these families can correct or complete this database. Until now, this database contains all families from the southern part of Holland ( Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands ) and the northern part of Belgium ( province of Antwerp in the Flanders ).

The family names of most importance in this database are ;

 Coolen  - Donders -  Van Meel - Van Mierlo

Combining data from other families in one database, we've managed to grow to a file with more then 4500 family names. We also have gathered, thanks to publications of other persons, reached to ancestors from the 4th (fourth) century.

More information on the background of these families, there origin and the sources of this information, is for you presented in our background pages on this website.

It is not the intention of the owner of this site, to investigate all of the branches of these families, nevertheless will he urge the namesakes to provide him with current and new information to keep this database up to date.

Some families are a part of this database, without primary interest from the owner, and therefore not complete. If you would be a descendant of such a person, feel free to inform me of the missing details of that family.  WITH THANKS.

General information about this Database

Following items are the general remarks concerning the information in this database.

• Of some persons ( usually women related by marriage ) the family name is not known to the owner of this site, and will be displayed as "-".  If the calling name of some persons is not known, they will be mentioned as "NN echtgenoot(e)" ( husband or wife ), "NN zoon/dochter" ( sun or daughter ) or "NN moeder/vader" ( mother or father ) (NN = Nomen Nescio).

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• The family names ( surnames ) are presented ( and sorted in listings ) on a Flemish manner. This means that a person called "Jan Pieter van Helmond" will be noted as "Van Helmond, Jan Pieter"  and not as "Helmond, Jan Pieter van"

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• If there is a difference in the calling name and the the persons Christian names, it will be stated between (brackets). For example my name is Henk, but officially my name is Hendrikus Franciscus Gerardus. So my name will be displayed as "Hendrikus Franciscus Gerardus (Henk) Coolen".

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• The information is usually gathered by genealogists out of the so called baptism- marriage- and funeral books. It is possible that the real birth or the day of death, took place one day ( sometimes a few days ) sooner or later as displayed.

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• Many family names have different forms of spelling, so  Jansen could become Janse, Janssen, Jansens or Janssens. In this database we will use the most common surname used by this family, and note the use of other spellings in the name between {brackets}. Pieter Jan Koolen will be mentioned as "Pieter Jan {Koolen} Coolen"

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Surnames and corresponding Municipalities

These pages give you a summary, per surname, in what time period and in which municipalities, the individuals in this database, are born, marries or died.

So you can determine whether my data is of interest for you. 

Example ;   ** Jeronimus **

In the data on this website there are in Den Dungen 5 births and 1 marriage, in the years from 1550 to 1627, when the surname Jeronimus is used. Beside this there are 2 birth, 4 marriages and 2 deaths of which the location is unknown.

Remarks and/or additional data

All your remarks, additions and/or corrections are always WELCOME. If you don't want your information displayed on this website, please let me know so I can take the necessary actions.

Is there a person or an event ( Birth , Christening , Marriage , Decease ) missing in this database,   a date, a name or the municipality not complete,  or do you own a document ( photo , christening card , marriage certificate , mortuary card ) that could be of any help ???

Or if you are a descendant of one of the persons in this database and you want to help adding your data to this website, or your family tree connects somewhere to mine, please give me a message. We will work together.

Help the owner of this site to complete and keep his database up to date.

Send your remarks and/or additional data to .

What do we want to receive from you to correct our data ;

• Identification of the person ;

•         The way they used to call him

•         Christian name(s)

•         Family name

•         Gender

•         Profession

• Events like Birth , Christening , Marriage , Decease

•         The date, eventually only the year

•         The city in which the event occurred

•         The witnesses of this event

• The relations of this person

•         Names of the parents

•         Names of  his/hers children

•         Names of the witnesses of an event ( Marriage witness, Godfather and Godmother )

• Copies of Documents

•         Photo or portrait

•         Marriage certificate

•         Christening card

•         Mortuary card and/or obituary notice

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Pedigree charts and Genealogy lists

We use a self-made program for the presentation of Pedigree charts and Genealogy lists. 

A "Pedigree chart" is a chart which displays a person, his/hers parents, their parents, etc... The number of people multiplies by 2 in every following generation. A "Pedigree chart" per definition ( according to some encyclopedias ) means a sheet with 4 generations, making a time stamp of about 100 years. ( e.g. the average age for the parents to give birth to there kids is 33 years ). And the people on the top of a sheet can become the subject of an other sheet.

A "Genealogy List" is a list of every ( by the author ) known descendants of a person in the past. Normally only displaying the families that use the same surname, but in our case, displaying all known descendants. Are you one of these descendants ? ... Please inform the owner of this website of your existence.

The different Pedigree charts, can and will be connected somewhere in the past, or we tried to connect them in an indirect way. While reading in one of the Pedigrees or Genealogies you can jump to the descendants or parents, and even jump to the pages with the complete information of these families. Using the BACK button of your browser, you would find your way back to the first listing.

Symbolic and abbreviations

This is a list of symbols and abbreviations used on this website, or in other documents produced from the database of our gathered families.

French Professions

A list of French professions and there English and Dutch translations

Old Handwriting

This image gives you an impression of characters and abbreviations, used in the 16the and 17the century.

Translation of some Dutch words

Because we couldn't translate all information in this Genealogical database, we give you al list of translations, from Dutch tot English.