Pages: 236-248 w/adverts

Language: Flemish

Annual people’s almanac for Flanders

Author: Jozef  J. Goethals

Pages: 275 – Hardcover

Language: English

The Goethals are one of a handful of families that can trace their documented ancestry back to the 9th century. The Goethals family reportedly originated in Italy ca 880, a tale of fact and legend consistently retold throughout the centuries. From the beginning of the 12th century the Goethals flourished in Ghent in Flanders (Belgium).

This book not only describes the genealogical literature of the 19th century but publishes three classical branches of the Goethals of Ghent, capital of East-Flanders in Belgium.  Corrections of erroneous data and incorrect links, resulting from the discovery of new sources, are incorporated in the history.  For anyone interested in the Goethals family, or wanting to know how this family lived through a thousand years of Flemish history, this book becomes a primary source of information on both sides of the Atlantic.

In addition, the saga of three “forgotten” Goethals branches are part of the book: the family of General George Washington Goethals, “builder of the Panama Canal,” his relative Geeraert Goethals, accepted in the nobility in 1652, and the Goethals of Kortrijk.

Inserts throughout the text, 77 illustrations and the histories of Flanders and Ghent, provide the reader with a cultural and historical background. A chronological list of 718 Goethals households and 1,150 baptisms (including the godparents), in eight parishes of Ghent and three neighboring churches from 1584 to 1796, will be a rich source for Goethals researchers. The 296-page book ends with an extensive bibliography and an index of names and their spouses for each chapter.

Author: Jozef J. Goethals

Pages: 176 – Hardcover

Language: English

George W. Goethals “always regretted not knowing more of his antecedents”.  A Flemish-born namesake of his has done it for him in this study of the General’s ancestors in Belgium.  Based on church records, aldermen and orphan acts, archival documents from the City Archives of Ghent, and genealogical publications on the Goethals of the 18th and 19th centuries, the work traces in detail 13 generations of the general’s ancestors.  The book also sketches the ancestry of Geeraert Goethals, ennobled in 1652 and descending from the same original family in Ghent.

In addition to eight charts, the work has 24 illustrations of maps, photographs, documents and the wonderful pencil drawings of the Ghentian artist Mr. Gaston Desmet.

Author: Bernard A. Cook

Pages: 110

Language: English

At the onset of the twenty-first century, Michigan was home to the second-largest Belgian population in the US, and Detroit had one of the largest Belgian populations in the nation.  Although immigration had declined after World War I, the Belgian-American community remained prominent in the state.  Political, religious, and economic conditions, including a nineteenth-century depression, helped motivate the move to America.  Belgians brought with them the ability and willingness to innovate, as well as a tradition of hard work and devotion.

Author: Philemon Sabbe

Pages: 63

Language: Flemish

Uitgegeven in 1944, deel twee van een verzameling stukjes geschreven door Philemon Sabbe in de Gazette van Detroit, “om onze kleurvolle taal in Noord Amerika in ‘t leven te houden en onze oude Vlaamsche zeden te herdenken”. Een waardevol historisch en literair document.

Author: Arthur Verthé

Pages: 141

Language: English

In 1833 the first Flemings arrived in Detroit, which was then a settlement with five thousand inhabitants.  The author describes the story of the courageous but hard emigration of the pioneers at the time of Poor Flanders and their search for a well-balanced existence in this new heterogeneous world.

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