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Posts tagged Dodde
Vogel Center Cemetery fun facts
Mar 25th
There are times when researching can actually be fun. Sure, I love finding out names, birth dates, etc. but genealogy is so much more. Today was just one of those fun times.
Believe it or not, it all started with me updating my new gallery. I’m trying to move everything over to nextgen gallery (a WordPress plugin) and was adding descriptions so I had to open up RootsMagic v4 to get the information that I needed. Since I just switched from Legacy to RootsMagic, I’m still trying to learn everything available to me. One is adding the GPS coordinates just not for the place name but the place detail. More >
Genealogy Update – 31 Jan 2009
Jan 31st
Finally uploaded all the names that Tjerk and Ronald Doddema sent me.
- Previous
- Individuals: 3948
- Families: 1667
- Current:
- Individuals: 3969
- Families: 1679
This comes out to an additional 21 individuals and 12 families.
A big thanks goes to them.
If you find any errors or would like to contribute to the DoddemaGen project, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Found Shirley Dodde-Brown
Nov 21st
I haven’t opened my email for the last couple days and for that I apologize (I need to start that World of Warcraft Anonymous group that I was talking about a while ago). Fortunately, I opened it today and was pleasantly surprised and ecstatic to find that a family member found our site and contacted me. This a big deal for me. Most of the information on this site has been gathered due to the work provided by those that found this site on the Internet.
Here’s the contents of the email:
Good Morning,
I stumbled on your site by accident-I had no idea that there was anything out there on our family. I started looking around a few years ago and contacted someone in the Netherlands and was going to continue, but life got in the way.
Anyway, you’ve got some awesome work going here? I want to spend more time looking around.
I am the daughter of Harm and the grand-daughter of Dries and Johanna and the great grand-daughter of Drees and Altja (sp). Where do you come in?
I just spent a couple of hours with Ray Dykhouse this week. He has been researching his Dykhouse roots and has some great pictures, a few of them were Doddes.
He is the son of Drice Dykhouse who is the son of Emma Dodde who is the sister of my grandfather Dries.
If you get some time let me know a little about you? Meantime thanks again for the work you’ve done.
Happy Saturday! Gotta get the walking shoes on, there are five mile of pavement to hit before I start my day.
Shirley
Welcome Shirley! I look forward to working with you and would love to learn more about your family.
(I’ve had this post saved since 12 July 2008. Finally getting around to posting.)
Welcome Henk Doddema
Aug 19th
I first met Henk when researching the Doddema name about 4-5 years ago. He had already done some great research and willingly passed along the information that he had put together. Shortly thereafter, DoddemaGen became a reality.
He does volunteer work in Africa. What exactly I’ll leave to him. Maybe he can write that in a post someday (hint, hint 
).
All’s I know for certain is that I’m honored that he’s joined DoddemaGen. I respect the work that he’s already done and hopefully the work that will continue to be done for our ancestors. They’re the ones that this site is dedicated to, those that have done so much to bring us this far.
I invite all Doddema/Dodde’s to join in. Share your stories, both of now and “back then”. While there may be a language barrier between us, we are still family. I look forward to working with all of you.
