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Any ΩF members Dutch or belong to the Verboort (Verboord) Dynasty?

wagudc
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My apologies if this is too far off topic, but this is the only international forum I belong to. Others may find the story interesting. I am American with Dutch ancestry. My great-great-great-great grandfather was one of the founding members of a small community in Oregon called Verboort in 1875 (see mug below). In the 1981 one of my quite distant Dutch relatives Jan Verboort started an extensive genealogical study of our family tracing our family back to 1580. He also found our family in the United States. There was a reunion that was featured on national television in the US, and later a book was published in 1985. I have included a few pages from it below. If you happen to have a connection to the family send me a private message, I would love to meet a distant relative that shared my interest in watches. I hope that this post has been sufficiently interesting to the rest of you. I know it is quite off topic, and I would not be offended if the mods deemed it appropriate to delete it. There is still a website connected to the family, but does not seem to be maintained, I have gotten no response from my inquires. https://verboort.info/index.php

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YY77
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I'm located in Holland, I can post a link of your thread to a Dutch watchforum I'm on to see if this gets a hit?
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Dutch mother who immigrated to Australia during WW2 👍
 
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YY77 YY77
I'm located in Holland, I can post a link of your thread to a Dutch watchforum I'm on to see if this gets a hit?

Sure, that would be great. Thanks!
 
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STANDY STANDY
Dutch mother who immigrated to Australia during WW2 👍

The author of the book researched the name Verboort and found concentrations in Brisbane and Perth Australia. However, I don't think he was able to connect relationship there.
 
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STANDY STANDY
Dutch mother who immigrated to Australia during WW2 👍

Hold on, I just had a thought. If we're related does that mean you will sell me your black-dialed Lemania Supercompressor?
 
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DaveK DaveK
My mom came from Holland to Canada after WWII, does that mean I can buy Standy’s Seiko?

A J Jacobs wrote “It’s all relative” a very fun book about family reunions https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1476734496/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_RJGZVS0FXQ46JVXG5A80

I may have to check that out. Funny, the bit about the email from the eighth cousin. I found an email address for the author of the book in my original post. I just sent him an y that started, "If I figured correctly, we are 5th cousins once removed'"

Also, I am pretty sure you can buy Standy's Seiko if you outbid the competition.
 
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Dutch Grand parents (mothers side) immigrated from Rotterdam in the 20's?
Mom and Grandma spoke dutch when I was a kid. Drove me crazy, like they were talking in code.
 
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kingsrider kingsrider
Dutch Grand parents (mothers side) immigrated from Rotterdam in the 20's?
Mom and Grandma spoke dutch when I was a kid. Drove me crazy, like they were talking in code.

My wife and I learned Spanish. So now we can speak in "code" in front of our daughters. It annoys them which is kinda funny (they're teenagers). Hopefully we will inspire them to learn a second language.
 
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wagudc wagudc
Hold on, I just had a thought. If we're related does that mean you will sell me your black-dialed Lemania Supercompressor?

You can fight the inheritance Uncle Wagudc. 😉



(Or nephew if your younger)
 
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My daughter was born in Holland, as were my wife's parents. I have a few Dutch ancestors going a bit further back.

Ik kan ook een beetje Nederlands nog spreken.
 
wagudc
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Just an update for you all. I did manage to track down the author of the book and had a nice email exchange. I also re-read the book and a few of my relatives left Holland for Australia post WW2, my family came to the US in 1846 because of famine in Europe.
 
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ConElPueblo ConElPueblo
What did they do?!?

Apparently my third cousin twice removed fought on the side of the Germans in WW2 and lost his Dutch citizenship. Then ended up leaving for Australia.

https://verboort.info/getperson.php?personID=I142&tree=tree1

"About 25,000 Dutchmen entered German military service during the Second World War. As a result, they automatically lost their Dutch citizenship. In 1953 the Dutch state introduced a law whereby these stateless Dutchmen could regain their Dutch Nationality. (law 1953 Official Gazette 363).
This Act was repealed in 1977, and applications for Dutch citizenship for this category are embedded in the application for naturalization. This makes it impossible to distinguish this category from others. An indication that a person has been in foreign military service is if the applicant was born before 1930, and was also born as a Dutch citizen at that time."
 
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Oops, I read it wrong. It looks like the person in previous post regained Dutch citizenship and one of his sons left for Australia in 1954.
 
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wagudc wagudc
"About 25,000 Dutchmen entered German military service during the Second World War…

I wonder if they were conscripted. My uncle was taken to a Nazi work camp, but managed to escape after a short time
 
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wagudc wagudc
Apparently my third cousin twice removed fought on the side of the Germans in WW2 and lost his Dutch citizenship. Then ended up leaving for Australia.

https://verboort.info/getperson.php?personID=I142&tree=tree1

"About 25,000 Dutchmen entered German military service during the Second World War. As a result, they automatically lost their Dutch citizenship. In 1953 the Dutch state introduced a law whereby these stateless Dutchmen could regain their Dutch Nationality. (law 1953 Official Gazette 363).
This Act was repealed in 1977, and applications for Dutch citizenship for this category are embedded in the application for naturalization. This makes it impossible to distinguish this category from others. An indication that a person has been in foreign military service is if the applicant was born before 1930, and was also born as a Dutch citizen at that time."

Wow - I only meant to poke fun of our Australian members, but it seems like there might be a serious reason...
 
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