When I wrote to Marnie on ancestry.com, my messages were posted on a public message board. Today I got two new messages. Both were from people trying to help me. One was merely a link to some information I have long since had. The other was that one of my grandfather's sisters, Anna Tuijnman Roomeijer, had three children. One of these three I had known about but have not been able to locate anything about her. This is "Beth", who helped her mother in a shop - I believe I wrote about her earlier. However, I was given the names and birth dates of two other children, plus Beth's full name. All three of these "children" (I'm sure they're all dead by now, or VERY old) would have been my father's first cousins. They are:
Elisabeth Maria Roomeijer, born 5/18/1908 (Beth!)
Jan Cornelius Roomeijer, born 9/12/1909
Maria Hendrika Roomeijer, born 6/7/1911
I have already begun to search for them, with no luck as usual. The only thing I did find is that Jan got married to Saartje de Korver on March 23, 1936. I think they were divorced in the 80's, but I'm hoping that there were some children produced from this union that I could find alive! They would likely be in their 60's by now. Perhaps I can find them or their children/grandchildren on facebook???
I have also found one downside to blogging. Every now and then as I'm skimming down a page of results while searching for a name, I come across not only the name I'm looking for but several other of my family names. I get so excited that perhaps I've stumbled on something directly about my family, only to realize that I've merely stumbled on my own blog! What a disappointment!
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