I decided to be persistent today in my searching. I found some old threads of a conversation I had on ancestry.com two or three years ago. I had been just fooling around on that site and searched for my last name. There was a little bit of information shared by several people. One of them was named Marnie who asked if we were related. She explained that her great, great grandfather was William (Willem) Tuijnman, married to Antje Tijsen. William was a brother of my great grandfather Reindert Tuijnman. In that email, Marnie had explained that William and Antje moved to the US, specifically Iowa, in the 1880's. I looked Marnie up and found her on facebook. I've sent her a message and also referred her to this blog. Hopefully she'll respond. I may not have found anyone in Holland yet, but maybe we have some distant family in the US!
Also, I have found that my grandfather's brother, Cornelius, married to Agatha Alida Speets Tuijnman had two children. The first was stillborn but the second child was named "Kees" (I think this is a male name) who was born in 1930 and died in 2005. Kees would have been a first cousin of my father's. I've tried to find Kees, but he's been elusive so far. In truth, I've found lots of Kees Tuijnmans, but most of them are still alive! Hopefully I'll track him down soon!
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