Macatawa Bay Area
History & Heritage

By Luann Hughes DeVries
Introduction:
My desire for this site is to make data of this area more easily accessible for the people who are interested in the History of West Michigan - but live at great distances from here and would otherwise find it hard to obtain.
 

 

 Updated:

9 April 2007


Featuring Something NEW:  IRISH IN OTTAWA COUNTY 
GENEALOGIES SEINEN
VanderKolk, Nykamp, Hulst 

 

        Schreuder Descendants of the Kremers & Heins Family
Descendants
of Derk
De Kleine
"Gerlofs"
In the Netherlands
and USA.		 Vredeveld
Brummel
Family
Hughes Family		 DeVries Family Struick Ancestors
Hofma
Family		   Biemhold

 

 Nagelkerke
 Bamberg 
Ancestors of Willem
Kremers/Cremers
Ancestors of Anna
Heins/Heininge		  Renzema
 Family		   "Ulberg"
    Family
 Leestma

 
Jan VanDam
Geesje Meinders
Grinwis		    Kuieck
Ancestors		      Kuieck 
  Descendants		  Plasman
VanWieren
Brouwer, Knoll & Related Families
CEMETERIES Vriesland
Cemeteries		 Forest Grove Cemetery  New Groningen
Cemetery		 Jamestown
Cemetery		 Ottawa Center Cemetery
Noordeloose
Cemetery		 North Holland
Cemetery		   Star/Kridler
   Cemetery		 Graafschaap
Cemetery		     Hanley 
  Cemetery		 Bentheim
Cemetery
 Old
 Overisel
 Cemetery		 Oakland
Cemetery		   Zutphen
 Cemetery		  Drenthe
Cemeteries
West Olive
 Cemetery		     Olive
Township
 Cemetery
St.Mary'sChurch 
      Cemetery
    Marne/Berlin		     ZEELAND 
  CEMETERY		 RUSK
CEMETERY
Grand Haven Twp. Cemetery		 Beaverdam 
Cemetery		 Pilgrim Home
Cemetery
   Holland Center 
   South Dakota
    East Saugatuck
Cemetery
Beaverdam 
 Cemetery		 Van Dam 
Cemetery
LOCAL INTEREST Early Zeeland Church Membership Records EARLY
ZEELAND
MARRIAGE
RECORDS
EARLY ZEELAND
CHURCH 
BAPTISMS
Map of
OTTAWA
COUNTY
MICHIGAN		 ZEELAND
     CITY
MONUMENT
Life Sketch of Myself: by Jacob DenHerder
Douglas & Saugatuck
Civil War		 Chester twp.1912
Ottawa County
Civil War 
Deaths 
Ottawa Co.
Drenthe Reformed Church Records 1849-1882
Drenthe Marriages
by Rev.Boer
Early Ottawa & N.Allegan County Pioneers
Dutch settlements Zeeland 
Immigrants		 Early Marriages by 
Van Raalte
Immigrant Ship Lists
of the Holland "Kolonie"
Vriesland
Early
Baptisms		 1892,Ottawa
Co.MI.Adult
Males. By Townships.		 Early 
Deaths
"Holland Colony"
Immigrants from
Hellendoorn,Overijssel
Hartgerink,
Letter to
Van Raalte
First Reformed Church:
 History & Pictures
 

 

Links 		 Local News Paper:
"The Holland Sentinel"
Featured 
new site! 

 
 
 


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Updated:   9 April 2007
 
 
 

TULIP TIME IS COMING!

 May 3 - 10, 2008 - HOLLAND, MICHIGAN