This blog is a transcription of the diaries of my grandfather, Folkert Peter Vander Meulen (1893-1978). If you wish to contact me, please do so at leslieatkhs65dotcom. We love finding new cousins!
About this Vander Meulen family blog
My grandfather died in 1978, leaving me his diaries and genealogy notebooks. I have spent over 2 years reading & in many cases re-reading the diaries through, although I have read parts in the past, and trying to decide how to share them. The blog format emerged as the best way to share. I hope family members are enjoying seeing the lives of my grandparents through grandpa's eyes as well as seeing how they fit into the world around them. If you think you may be related to us PLEASE email, I am willing to share information and love to correspond. PLEASE feel free to add comments - use the comment utility at the end of each post for asking questions, requesting information, or just saying hello! Before you get started, please go to the LABELS on the right side-bar and to the General Information posts to understand how this transcription of the diaries is going to be formatted. 1/1/2011 - my first typing of 2011 - the diary transcription has taken on a new dimension since I began in December, '09. I've discovered many things in my possession which I can use to illustrate the diaries, to say nothing of the magic of the Internet to add details and photos of the people, places and events that filled grandma & grandpa's lives. As I've said often, I now have to live to be 100, and be healthy, so I can finish! World War II years are almost finished, then it's back to grandpa's chronological jottings. There will be something for everyone, so I hope you are all enjoying reading as much as I am enjoying posting. Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar
Friday, December 20, 2013
Vrolijke Kerstmis en gelukkige nieuwjaar
Great Great Uncle Theake
Theake Folkert van der Meulen's 1941 Christmas card is a beautiful message and a perfect greeting to all our family and friends the world over, may you all be blessed this year and in the future. Uncle Theake was a florist, gardener, wannabe pottery biz mogul and a published poet and author. We are privileged to have had him in our family and I join him in sending Christmas wishes from the well-spring of my heart:
"A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR Today, this card must
serve to you to impart, The wishes flowing from
the well-spring of my heart. For you,
with all those to you so near and dear. The
distance does not matter, wherever you may roam Imagine
only I am with you at your home. To
wish you a Merry Christmas and Happiest New
Year.
Dunkirk,
New York, December 1941 Theake F. Van Der Meulen" photo courtesy of Carolyn Gast Depp
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