DoddemaGen

This is another email that I received through the website.  DoddemaGen must be more popular than I thought!

With her permission, the email reads:

I am a grandson of Jantina Doddema (born: 2-11-1900). I can tell you that she was married with Roelof Ros. She died at the age of 73 on 27 april 1974. She is buried at the cemetary in Wildervank (the Netherlands). Her parents Steven Doddema and Aaltje Bosscher are also buried there.

I have a picture of around 1917 of them with their 5 daughters.I have several old pictures of mij great-grandparents and their daughters.

Greetings Nico Ros.

I’m really excited to hear that our family is looking for more information on one another.  Hopefully this site will become a focal point and a central repository of information, news and such for the Doddema’s as I envision.  I’m looking forward to the future of DoddemaGen!  Exciting times are ahead.

Welcome Nico.  We hope to hear more from you!

I thought I’d add something fun. It’s been frightfully hot here for the past month…surprisingly so. We’ve been in the high 90’s and low 100’s for the past 3 weeks with no break and no rain. It’s insane weather. Fortunately, we haven’t had to start rationing water and that’s where this picture comes in.

There are just times where enough is enough and my girls had had it. Too hot and access to a sprinkler. Enough said! Enjoy!

[quicktime]http://doddemagen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/000_0533.mov[/quicktime]

I’ve often wondered how many Doddema’s are in the Netherlands. I don’t know how accurate the service is but FamilieNaam shows about 205 Doddema’s still living in the Netherlands. Pretty cool.  Now if only I could get them all to contact me!

I was doing my weekly search for the Doddema name on Google (I’ve found this is a great resource to contact other members of our family) and found Jan Doddema. Now I need to contact him and ask his relationship to me but I have a website and a YouTube video of him. He’s a singer and I thought everybody would enjoy watching him perform.

Hopefully, we’ll be hearing more from Jan Doddema.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6iElRh_5s4[/youtube]