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Texel related links

You will find here links to online English information about Texel. There are a lot more Texel links on my Dutch site, but the language may be a problem. Choose one of the categories:

• general
• genealogy
• emigration
• pictures

At the foot of this page I added a few URL's with information in English concerning genealogical research in the Netherlands in general. If you know other interesting sites about Texel, please mail me.

Greetings from the Netherlands

Miriam

Updated 11 April 2002

General

• Agricultural and Cart-museum
  Situated in the village De Waal, Texel

• Ecomare
  Centre for the Wadden and the North Sea

• VVV Texel
  Tourist information

• Round Texel
  World's biggest catrace

• Texel International Airport

• Paracentrum Texel

Genealogy

• Brouwer

• Daalder
• Dogger

• Dros

• Graaf

• Groot

• Halsema (from Kloosterburen)

• Hillenius and Kikkert
  The gedcom-database of Vern Ferguson contains a lot of information about these families, but also about other surnames.

• Kalis

• Family club Kikkert

• Van der Kloot

• Kooger

• De Leeuw

• Maas

• Ouddorp before 1800

Leo Akershoek owns a database with information about more than 15.000 persons from Goeree, before 1800.
• Van Prooyen

• Salm

• Slot

• Stark
• Tanis
  Tanis family originally from Ouddorp, Zuid Holland

• Tanis
  The descendants of Cornelis Dirks Tanis (1763-1833) and Geertruda Everts van der Sluis

• Timmer

• Birth certificate of Lodewijk Vermeulen (1873)

• Vlaming

Emigration

• American Family Immigration History Center
  Database containing passenger arrival records of Ellis Island for the period 1892-1924. A fantastic resource, but unfortunately it is sometimes hard to reach the site due to the number of visitors.

• Holland America Line
  With many pictures of the ships from 1873 till now.

• Passengers of the "Catherine"
  This ship sailed in 1850 from Texel to New York with a lot of Texel emigrants, for example the family Dogger.

Pictures

• Pictures of the Sluftervallei

• Painting of ships near Oudeschild
  Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1844

• Photos of cemetery in Den Hoorn

• Lighthouse
  Situated near De Cocksdorp, Texel

Hints

• Dutch marriage certificates
• Genealogical research in the Netherlands in general
  Article on the site of The Olive Tree
• More about the same topic
  By Donna Speer Ristenbatt
• Dutch-English genealogical wordlist
• Dutch peculiarities
  The genealogical basics are not the same all over the world
• Family Affairs
  Dutch genealogy and internet