Many of you have been asking me to put the results of my own genealogical research online. I've done just that: almost my entire database is available from the 'database' link in the horizontal menu.

Some statistics

• The database features almost 40,000 people.
• Most of them are from Winterswijk, Aalten, Bredevoort and Dinxperlo.
• The database includes over 2,000 emigrants to the United States and their families.
• The database roughly covers the 1500-1900 period. To protect the privacy of the living, more recent information has been excluded.
• The earliest person is Henrick Roerdynck, born about 1420.
• The most prolific person is Egbert Mierdinck. He's the ancestor of over 4,000 people in the database.