Final Update on Kuiken Line
1 October 2007 - 10:26:40pm

Why a final update? There are really NO other sources for more generations! This line of my family tree is should be seen in three distinct sections:

1: the first section, meticulously researched with birth, baptism, marriage, and death documentation

2: the second section, with people of historical note from whom we've discovered some documentation but mostly historical accounts ‎(such as Alfred the Great--how could you possibly get a birth certificate for that guy?)‎ Some of these people, in addition to having written histories, are mentioned in the latter Rhyme Chronicles of Holland and the later Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

3: The final, earliest section are people who's genealogies are mentioned in the Rhyme Chronicles of Holland, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Historia Britonum, Chronicon lethrense and the Annals of Lund, the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, Sögubrot, Njal's saga, and Hyndluljóð ‎(an epic poem)‎. For these generations, there is simply NO way to verify the information; many of these accounts were written accounts of oral traditions that were passed down for hundreds of years; therefore they are in my family tree for entertainment purposes only--as in, "hey, look where my family tree may lead!"

The earliest ancestor in my tree, using this last section, is my 57th great-grandfather Hadding, great-great grandfather to the real-life Danish king Hamlet ‎(Amleth)‎. Hamlet, then, is my is my 53rd great-uncle according to these ancient texts!

Updates to Keth family
18 September 2007 - 11:52:33pm

3 generations of my 13th great-grandmother Aechtjen Dircks Keth's ancestors added this evening.