family history
52 Ancestors – #7: Sjouke Sijes Noteboom
Sjouke Sijes Noteboom was born sometime before 1707 in Oenkerk, Friesland, Netherlands. He was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church in Oenkerk on 2 October 1707. He was a master builder and carpenter. Sjouke married Jannetje Zweersen on 1 May 1733 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sjouke was responsible for constructing the new city council chamber behind the townhall in Leeuwarden. He died in 1760 before construction could be completed. He was buried on 13 December 1760 in Oenkerk.
Leeuwarden City Hall
Wutsje / Wikimedia Commons, via Wikimedia Commons
52 Ancestors – #6: Marijke Boerboom
Marijke Boerboom is my 7th great-grandmother on my father’s side of the family. I believe she was born about 1700, and married Hendrik Noorderbroek on 28 July 1725 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. They had one known child, my 6th great-grandmother Elizabeth. It is unknown what happened to Marijke.
Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
Andries Schoemaker [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Blogiversary: Roots of Kinship is 3 years old!
Today is the third anniversary of Roots of Kinship as a blog! I have not been able to spend as much time as I would like on the blog in the last year, as I’ve been very busy with my day job, including a lot of travel. This year, I’m resolving to plan better and publish at least one post per week – even if a small post. To make that easier to do, I’m working on a plan for my 2016 posts, and trying to write and schedule posts in batches. I figure if I can spend a day a month planning my weekly posts, then I’m more likely to keep that resolution.
But in the last three year, I’ve increased the reach of this blog bit by bit. Here are some stats that capture how this blog has “grown” in three years.
2013
- Total Views: 286
- Total Visitors: 49
- Likes: 3
- Comments: 1
- Posts Published: 34
- Most Prevalent Countries:
- United States: 268
- Australia: 12
- United Kingdom: 6
2014
- Total Views: 1969
- Total Visitors: 1128
- Likes: 18
- Comments: 19
- Posts Published: 27
- Most Prevalent Countries:
- United States: 1426
- Brazil: 175
- Italy: 41
- Netherlands: 35
- US Virgin Islands: 28
- Australia: 25
- Canada: 23
- Ireland: 21
- France: 19
- United Kingdom: 18
2015
- Total Views: 6488
- Total Visitors: 3945
- Likes: 16
- Comments: 14
- Posts Published: 17
- Most Prevalent Countries:
- United States: 4854
- United Kingdom: 235
- Brazil: 210
- Canada: 204
- Australia: 178
- France: 124
- Italy: 67
- Germany: 64
- Netherlands: 50
- New Zealand: 27
Most of my success this year was in large part to my most popular post of the year – so even though I posted the least out of three years, I received more traffic this year than any previous. “How to… Get Organized with Researching My Family Tree” has garnered 3117 views all by itself.
My best referrers from within the genealogy community have been:
- Jana’s Genealogy and Family History
- No Story Too Small
- GeneaBloggers
- Family History Writing Challenge
Thank you to everything these blogs and websites do to support the community of genealogists and family history writers!
And thank you to everyone who has read my blog and taken an interest in the family history I have to share!
By Ashashyou (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
52 Ancestors – #5: Hendrik Noorderbroek
Hendrik Noorderbroek is my 7th great-grandfather on my father’s mother’s side of the family. He was born in approximately 1700 in the Netherlands. He married Marijke Boerboom on July 28, 1725 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. They had one known daughter, Elizabeth. It is unknown what happened to Hendrik.1
Leeuwarden, Bleau’s Toonneel der Steden, Dutch City Maps, Edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
- “Hendrik Noorderbroek”, Stamboom Dusseljee, (Coret Genealogie 1997-2016), https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-dusseljee/I427.php, Accessed: 2 January 2016. ↩