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The Hoogeveen Family Database
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of your ancestors is a Hoogeveen, you came to the right place. This is where you can find your ancestor’s roots
as far back as identifiable names and public records permit. You will readily see who all your Hoogeveen
relatives are, and how they fit together as part of your now instantly extended
personal family tree.
The Hoogeveen Family Database integrates
the Hoogeveen birth, marriage, and death statistics buried in countless local
church and civil archives throughout the Netherlands and beyond. It is a work in progress as new information
and new information sources turn up, either through further research by the
author or from contributions from interested volunteers. Initially the emphasis has been on the
Netherlands, presumably the origin country of our name. The plan is to extend the database to trace
Hoogeveen emigrants and their descendants to Germany, the United States, and the rest of the world.
There is only one requirement for
inclusion in this database: the surname Hoogeveen, regardless of how it is
spelled (see sidebar) or how it was acquired.
You get an honorable mention if you are married to a Hoogeveen, but to preserve our focus on the Hoogeveen
name, any further research into spouses and other significant others is left to
you. Links to other databases are
supported and encouraged (see Feedback,
below).
Names
A surname can be acquired in several
ways:
(1) through paternal inheritance (the traditional way),
(2) through maternal inheritance (by choice or by the absence of an
acknowledged father),
(3) by assumption from a step- or adoptive parent, or
(4) simply by choice—typically during the official, pre-1812 Europe-wide
drive to ensure that all families have permanent surnames for better
identification.
Before 1812, patronymic names were the
rule among Dutch citizens. Patronymic
names had the form
<givenname> <father’s-givenname><suffix>
(Example: Jan Pieters, or Jan, son of Pieter)
and resulted in vast numbers of
unrelated people with the same names—a genealogist’s nightmare. The use of surnames reduces these ambiguities
to relatively small numbers of possibilities.
Most families continued with the
patronymic tradition along with their new surname for the next few generations,
which turns out to be very helpful for genealogists when piecing together
family trees at times and places where records are fragmentary, since patronyms
are helpful hints in determining parentage within families.
For more information regarding the
history of Dutch surnames and civil registration, see
http://genealogy.about.com/library/authors/ucklaassen1a.htm
and http://home.earthlink.net/~gverver/dnc.htm
Patronymic conversions to Hoogeveen
account for nearly all the 60-odd separate family trees in our database. Of the remaining trees, a handful are limited
in depth by the church records that survive in the areas where the earliest
known Hoogeveens lived (16th-century Zuid-Holland Province), and
probably do not go back much farther than that.
The database still contains a few trees of indeterminate origin, but I
am hopeful that these, too, will be resolved soon.
Data Sources
The major sources of data for this
project were the numerous local municipal archives throughout the
Netherlands. Most have comprehensive
birth, marriage, and death records for the entire population of the Netherlands
since 1812, when mandatory civil registration laws, including the requirement for family
surnames, went into effect—all initiated by Napoleon and retained after his
ouster. Most of these records have
already been indexed for computer access and are now available online at no cost.
Prior to 1812, only a few municipalities
recorded birth, marriage, death, and/or residency information of their
subjects, and even those were spotty and incomplete. To fill this gap in their pre-1812 archives,
Dutch municipalities have turned to the best source of such information: church
registers of past baptisms, marriages, and burials, sometimes going back as far
as the 16th century. As of
today, many of these registers have already been indexed and are available
online along with the post-1812 data.
Despite everyone’s best efforts, many
gaps remain. Lost files and records,
recording mistakes, deficient standards, spelling issues, indexing errors, and
data-compiling screw-ups (mine) all contribute to the difficulty of making
sense of this overabundance of data. One of the goals of this project is to
navigate this thicket just once, for the benefit of all those interested in
identifying their Hoogeveen ancestors.
Another cause of incompete data are
the Dutch privacy laws. Birth and
marriage data are made available to these databases only after 100 years have
passed, and deaths records, after 50 years.
If you are looking for a recent relative, this website is not the
best place to look.
Getting Started…
Before you start searching, take a
little time to browse the database and become familiar with the notation. Then read Search Tips to help you choose the best strategy for
finding your relative in this database.
If you don’t find him/her right away, try different strategies, as
suggested in that link.
Feedback
Send to…
As indicated earlier, collaboration
with other interested family researchers is essential for the integrity and
completeness of this database. All are
urged to contribute to this database in any of the following ways:
1) Report any Hoogeveen relative you cannot locate in this database!
2) Fill in missing information,
such as a date or a spouse.
3) Insert missing family members,
such as children or siblings, or an additional marriage.
4) Correct any mistaken data item
or family relationship (location in the tree).
5) Confirm or correct a red (“best-guess” location) entry in the database.
6) Spelling is always an
issue. Should it be the “correct”
spelling, the recorded spelling (to facilitate further research), or the
most easily searched spelling? Make a
suggestion.
7) Request a link to your
genealogy website, either for the Links
page or as a direct link from a non-Hoogeveen spouse in this database to a
corresponding principal in yours (include your bookmark and request one in
mine).
8) Correct or suggest
improvements to any other information published on this website.
9) Correct or suggest improvements regarding
links, design, or other technical features of this website.
Be sure to include in your email
adequate data identifying the database entry you are referring to.
Privacy
Please report any privacy concerns. If any living individual requests to be taken
out, I will be glad to comply immediately (with the database entry, that is—not
you!). As an example of a workable policy, my
siblings and I, all retired, have agreed to include ourselves, but not our
children and grandchildren, in the database.
They can decide for themselves later when they, uh, inherit this
project.
© 2016 Annelies J.
Schlitt The use of any material
derived from this website for commercial purposes without permission is
strictly forbidden.