Blog Detail
Kossen Genealogy Blog
http://stamstruik.nl
Blog about genealogy. The stories from the family tree
- Added on: Jan 21st, 2009
- Country: Netherlands
- Language: English
- Author: Willem Kossen
- Listed in: History
- Tags: family genealogy international weblog ancestry kossen
Recent Posts
How Names Change over Time
Image via Wikipedia A name isn’t necessarily the same as time passes. This can be a big hurdle when you’re doing genealogy research. In this post I’ll introduce you to one of these varying name problems I encountered. When resear...
My ancient Scottish Heritage.
Image via Wikipedia Yes it is true, I have Scottish ancestors, but it’s a long time ago. Let’s tell you a story of how I found the information. My grandmother on father’s side has Mudde as a surname. I wanted to trace her ancestr...
Relative Who Died in World War II
Many people in Europe will have one or more relatives who died in World War II. I’m no exception. An uncle of my father was one of the unlucky people who was inprisoned for hiding a jewish child. He died in Germany in Hamburg. I allready knew t...
How to search your Dutch Ancestry?
To say it’s simple would be wrong. But there is a lot of information available, even on the internet. Let’s just post a simple step-by-step plan to get you started. 1. Start with you and the things you know. Try to get back at least a 100...
My name is Kossen
Where to start? Well, myself would be good…. My family name is Kossen. What’s that you say? Yup, Kossen. So what does it mean? Kossen is in fact similar to Jansen, a common dutch name which means so much as son of Jan, Janszoon - Janszn -...
What am I going to do?
Well, A new blog, so this question is appropriate. What am I going to do with a blog about genealogy? Here’s the idea i had: I have allready done quite some genea-research so I have a file, a large one to be precise. In that file there is a loa...
