New
data, new version
Under The
Roovers Family is explained how data contained in the Family Tree have
been gathered over a period of more than 50 years. Some serious mistakes
made decades ago have been corrected in recent years by the friendly cooperation
of amateur genealogists and professional archivists.
As a consequence the privatedly
distributed 1993 version of my ancestry "Roovers
uit de Eeninge van Rijsbergen" has become out of date and largely
incorrect.
Indexing
To make referencing and indexing
at all possible I have standardized most christian names and family names
though I am fully aware of the implicit arbitrariness. On the other hand
the bewildering variety in names is such that faithfully keeping to the
wording found in the archives would lead to an unmanageable heap of data.
Pictures and
scans
Photos (from the 1870's onwards)
are stored in the chapter
on my grandparents; a special link (PP) next to the
names of individuals in the Family Tree gives access to these pictures.
Scans of a few documents are included
because of their particular interest or because they were signed by ancestors;
they date from the years 1468,
1571,
1646,
1689,
1703
and
1738.
Publications
and archival references (in Dutch)
This section contains: