Tony Hofstee's Home Page

Genealogy is incurable

My name is Anthony Hofstee. I was born in the Netherlands and moved to Canada at age 5. My parents and my three brothers came to Canada to have a better future. In this my parents had success as all four sons did very well for themselves. Before I retired I was a High School teacher of French and occasionally German. My hobbies include music, stamp collecting and genealogy. My wife and I and all four of our children enjoy music. However my passion is genealogy. For over 30 years I have done extensive research on my wife's family (Neef) and also on my own. At present I am helping several people with their family search as well. That means a lot of the families listed below are not related to me except perhaps in the 23rd generation or further back. When using the search feature just below, make sure you try both with mixed letters (e.g. Pals) as well as all capitals (PALS).

Links to other sites on the Web

My favorites

stereograms

Elgin County Railway Museum

My picture page

Information Sites

National Archives of Canada

National Library of Canada

Canadian genealogy records

Canadian Naturalization 1915-1932, searchable database

Ontario archives site, includes genealogy links, maps and information about vital statistics

Dutch Heritage Page of the Windmill

Dutch Regiments

Elgin County Archives

Elgin County Branch OGS

Digitale Regio Friesland

Join Geneanet

GenLias

Doing Research using the Mormon Microfilms

Het gebruik van een Centrum voor Familiegeschiedenis van de Mormonen

De Sneuper, Historische Vereniging Noordoost Friesland

Soldaten in de Nederlanden

Stichting Oud Aalsmeer

Stichting Genealogisch Archief Vermeer

Family History Center Films

A Genealogical Perspective of Dutch Coinage during the Republic (c1568-1795)

Yvette's Dutch Genealogy Homepage

Genealogy in Limburg

Genealogy queries View my genealogy queries

Home Pages

Genealogische Website van Klaas Bekkema

Fonkert Home Page

Jan Hofstee (Limburg) Home Page

Jansen genealogie

Richard Keijzer's home page

Rob Koning's home page

Egbert Lantinga's Kwartierstaat

Molema-Smitshoek Home Page, Hoeksche Waard, Zeeland, etc.

Tonnie Plane's home page

Pieke fan der Schaaf Home Page

Karel van der Wal's homepage

Local

My home city, St. Thomas

London and Port Stanley Railway

St. Thomas Times-Journal, our local newspaper

Genealogies, Family Histories, Pedigrees/Kwartierstaten

Hofstee-Neef pedigree showing siblings

The Hofstee Family History

Neef family history

DeBlieck pedigree (in Dutch)

Boer pedigree

De Boer-Boersma, a family from Friesland and Groningen

Ancestors of Dirk Gerbens Brouwer, 1914-1986

Brouwer/Zijlstra

Buis-van Dijk

Buis-Van Helvoort

van Buren-van Buuren

Buursma family of Ferwerderadeel

Buursma family of Boornbergum, Friesland

Buursma family of Warga, Idaarderadeel

Dakins-Roberts, an Ontario family with lots of US and England ancestors

Dijkstra-De Jong

Douglas, an Ontario family

The van der Duim family of Friesland

Feitsma family of Deinum and surrounding area

Van Gaal Pedigree, families van Gaal, Olthof, Poelman, de Louw, Derksen, Bus in Noord-Brabant, Overijssel and Gelderland

The Geensen Family of Zeeland

Pedigree of Carmen Greydanus, families in Friesland and Gelderland

de Haan pedigree

van Ham

Hamminga pedigree

Heidinga

Henskens, a Noord-Brabant family

Hibma

Hofstee/Rienstra pedigree

Hoogendoorn pedigree

De Jong-Hylkema

De Jong-Spinbaas

Kooi, from Het Bildt, Friesland to the Haarlemmermeer

A Kramer family of Franeker

A Meijer family of Terschelling

Meyer from Terschelling with roots in Vlieland, Goes, Dordrecht

Oosters pedigree

Pieters - with Valstar, Nagel, Sonnevelt, Mostert, Hiddemans, Salentijn, Plokhaar, Sluiter, Vreugdenhil

Van der Plaats pedigree

Postma-Elzinga

van der Ree pedigree - a Hoeksche-Waard family

Smit pedigree

The Soblet family site

Thank you page

Tuininga/Tuinenga

De Vries-Meetsma

A Weeda family in the Hoeksche-Waard

It is the beginning of November already. Today (November 3) it has been quite warm and we have had rain and a thunderstorm. Last week we had about 12cm of snow in one night. We have finished with the Canadian federal election and tomorrow our southerly neighbours have their big day. Hallowe'en is over and now we can start planning Christmas. I am back in choir and Anna is still singing in the Ladies' Choir. The Men's Choir and Ladies' Choir will be combining for a Christmas concert just before Christmas. I am still busy fixing up my genealogy files. Right now I am working on the de Blieck family. For those of you who use my data please check out the changes, especially in the Hofstee/Neef, van Gaal, Greydanus, Oosters and Buis family trees. There are too many updates to list here. There is so much new material on the internet and thankfully for those of us doing research in the Netherlands it is still free!! A great big thank you to all the volunteers who are helping to digitalize thousands upon thousands of records. I am looking forward to hearing from some of you and good luck in your genealogical searches.