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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 295414, member: 2844&quot;]Phaik, do you ever sleep?</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I know the system. There are related systems in Indonesia. Especially the name changes, which makes sorting out ancestral lines from a distance (Netherlands) a bit difficult. Who is who?</p><p>I have been given the task to dig up genealogical data for our branch of the family, which is quite international. Part of the ancestry is Javanese and Madurese (and Peranakan), so I came across that tangle.</p><p>But at least there is information on that side. The European side is more difficult, our painted and gilded copy of the family tree was stolen during one of the many Nazi raids, and a lot of the old records were destroyed during WWII.</p><p>I finally discovered there were copies of some of the records in Cologne, Germany. When I wanted to contact the city archives there, this happened<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcTW4THm6oLm6jm_ZRlIHc0xNabzepDQqeqsupKa2GIn3zuisG2P&amp;sp=623ae2716e81c6c492fc4c609d7975b4&amp;anticache=335638" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The rubble is the city archives, &#039;gone underground&#039; in 2009. Not my fault, I swear.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/cool.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" /> Cologne decided they wanted a subway, and someone miscalculated.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Priceless old manuscripts, German, Belgian, Dutch, went down along with our humble records.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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