Memories

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History: Family

I went looking for my female ancestors. There are many ancestral trees, but they are all about men e.g. my father’s example reconstructed back to the 14th century.

But how about my grandmothers, I asked myself , they appeared to be pushed aside as unimportant while to me the grandmothers are the most important. As a woman I want to know who were those women who came before me, thanks to whom I was created.

To start with a simple list of my mother, her mother, her mother and so on until I could come as far as this page (Dutch). And now working on a huge project about all the female ancestors here. You can not find it here yet but one of them was an English princess from Wessex in the 10th century who was married to a Dutch duke and then went to live in what is now Belgium.