Summary of the ROOVERS Genealogy Pages

INDEXES

• Index of Ancestry.
• Index of the Descendants of Christiaan Peter Roovers and Catharina Boots.(my paternal grandparents)
• Index of the Descendants of Adriaan Peter Roovers (1725-1799). 

The Roovers Family
The introductory chapter offers: 

• A history of the data and a summary of the limitations. 
• A description of the geographical and social roots of the Roovers family. 
• A note on the family name. 
• A note on coats of arms.
• A link to a survey of 14 generations of my male ancestors till around 1475. 

Roovers Family Tree from the present time till around 1400

This is the door to the backbone of these pages:

• All my known ancestors and their families, spanning over six centuries.
• Accompanied by scans of ancient documents from 1468 onwards.  
• An index of well over 1500 individuals with over 400 different last names.  
• A list of publications (in Dutch).
• Archival references from circa 1400 till circa 1700 (in Dutch).
• Archival references about various Ro(e)ver(s) born circa 1400, whose relationship to the family tree is not established (in Dutch).

My Grandparents and the Descendants of my Paternal Grandparents
This chapter contains notes on my grandparents and on the family of my wife. It is the visually most appealing chapter because of the many photos spanning more than a century.

Links to the following records are available:

• The descendants of my paternal grandparents, Christiaan Peter Roovers and Catharina Boots with a separate index. 
• The families of both my maternal and paternal  grandparents. 

Roovers branches 

in Holland, Belgium, Canada and the USA

(Descendants of Adriaan Peter Roovers (1725 - 1799)