Happy Father's Day
6-16-24 6:58am
Life is not to be here to gain things
but to "surrender"...
our walk with Jesus...
It does not matter
to have power, money, or influence.
Focus on making Jesus
and His name great,
not your name.
For the "Living" Family Members
who want me
to keep names "private" online here-
I will share the areas I uncovered
redacting the full last names
and just have the beginning letter
for the more recent generations...
I am all for showing it all public
but there are folks around me who have their own thoughts
and views how I should live my life.
I used to live a very private way ...
God is my person I follow ...
God needs us to be open not just for all
but for Him to hear Him
to do His will and way.
The thing is they do not realize -
all this is already public
so why hide where we come from ???
My ancestors may have passed on
but I do all I do to make sure I lived a life
with integrity and truth.
(I own my flaws publicly too.)
This is my father's father's history ...
Happy Father's Day, "Papa" ... (RiP)
Papa:
Not much is known online for Papa's Twin Sister yet...looking...
William Richard Z -_-_-_ Sr..
(my grandpa, my heart and soul)
Ancestry.com may possibly have AI but I have something better-
Dirk --- Richard Born Feb 23 1900 - Died November 1966
Came to America from Holland January 21 1914
DOCUMENTS THAT LEAD TO THE FACTS-
not just on Yarnell Hill Fire 2013,
and DONNA GORDON vs. YCSO
but my own roots and where I come from...
I googled Alcott Place and got these images:
I was told by my Aunt, at an early age, that most women remain a housewife in our family and that my mother and her sister and her mother worked and she could not comprehend that "work ethics" like who would willingly want to until I encouraged her to at least try it and she worked for a tiny bit of her life with a big outfit who I belong to as a customer today. She preferred to be a housewife with her poor health. I did endurance bicycling and did so much self-care so I could avoid that chronic long poor health myself, yet it creeped in and here I am. I do look for remote work. At interviews, I am explained it is my brain tumors/seizures that is the final decision I am not hired since 2011. I need a job that provides health care- With the state, most my paternal family got disability but for me they label me we recognize your conditions, yet we find you to have limitations... uhhhh...duh... I would say I was unable to work because of this long history of on and off infections especially the Staph/MRSA yet who am I ...???
where the Dirk & family were reported to have lived
he rented a home - 814 N Park Street:
Let us look at the 1930's United States Federal Census - Kalamazoo, Michigan
Shows Alcott Place
My grandfather's (Papa) father and mother listed as:
Dirk and Piercy
Ancestry stated: Richard and Piercy.
My great grandfather: Dirk (30)(Netherlands-1904 Immigration Year - Naturalization- Alien- that makes him six years old when he came over) Paper Maker - Paper Mill
My great grandmother: Piercy (28)(NJ)
Registration Card:
1918 WWI:
CELERY GROWER not cherry grower like I had on image:
see:
Hey, Arizona State Forestry - Department of Forest and Fire Management - DFFM - Bill Boyd- Public Information Officer - did you see your name WILLIAM -BILL - BOYD signed my 2nd great grandpa's Registration Card. Funny, huh. And your name handled my Public Records requests.
Children: My grandfather (Papa) (7)
Papa's sister Betty A.(7)
and they were 7 years old; Twins.
also, they lived/rented in a Dwelling with his brother-in-law Leonard (34)(m-25) and sister-in-law Jane (26)(m-24)
My great grandpa worked at the Paper Mill during the "Great Depression".
Wow, seems my ancestors lived their adult life just as I am today...we have my brother-in-law here.
Interesting.
I call it current Economics. ??? Or someone always home :)
Dirk / Richard was born on February 23, 1900, in Holland, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, his father, Dirk, was 38 and his mother, Anna, was 35 at time of his birth. That is interesting how old they were when they became parents.
This information makes it that my father's father's father is the first to come to America in 1904 but was born in Holland - that makes my grandpa and his twin sister Betty A. the first one in his family born in America.
Wait until you see my mother's father--- llllloooooonnnngggg history in America.
Not so, for my father and his parents. They came over on the boat from Holland (paternal) and Sicily, Italy (maternal).
That makes it that we can conclude I am fourth generation on my father's paternal side to America, but I know I go way back on another family member.
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I did not see anything for 1920's Census for Richard or Dirk so let me peak at 1910 Census:
I did find my Great Great (2nd Great) Grandpa- Dirk and my Great Great (2nd Great) Grandma Marie.
Newspaper from 1916 to show topics discussed:
How the women dressed where they lived:
what the houses looked like back then:
my great grandpa was 10 while his father was a Contractor in the Building Industry. Everything seeming pretty normal to those times so far.
Everyone listed here were born in Holland:
Mortgage- Owner
Great Great (2nd Great) Grandpa- Dirk (46) Contractor- Buildings
Dirk
1862–1921
BIRTH 1 JAN 1862 • Holland
DEATH 31 JAN 1921 • Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2nd great-grandfather
Weird to think in 1910 at age 46, that eleven years later he died in 1921- he died at 59.
Great Great (2nd Great) Grandma Marie (45)
my Great Grandpa: Dirk (10)
Grand Aunt: Hilda (20) Machine Operator - Regalia Co. (HOME | Regalia (freemasonsusa.com))
Free Mason Seamstress- Machine Operator so I emailed to fact check and verify how many years
Grand Aunt: Minnie (14)- wow she would be 114 today...
Grand Aunt: Marie (13)
Dirk:
Marie:
1930's Jay Theodore and Marie Christina had:
Clifford (11),
Margaret (9),
Kenneth (7),
Dorothy (4 1/2),
Hazel (1 1/2)
in the 1950 census, she is 53 y.o. housewife and her husband Jay is a paper maker at theAllied paper mill with a daughter Ruby J age 14.
Dirk
Hilda
Minnie
Marie
Hilda: Born January 13, 1890-Died December 26, 1953 Kalamazoo at age 63.
1920 Census
1920 Census
Hilda (Hiltje "Hilda" born Jan 13 1890 (Netherlands) (29) and died Dec 26, 1953 is married to Cornelius Machiel V (1889-1970) (31)
Spoke Dutch, Cornelius (7), Dick (5), John (2 3/12)
Minnie:
Marie: In 1916 Marie Christina was a sorter for Bryant Paper Co
seventeen years later- City Directories:
that would make Betty (15), Clarence W ?, Cornelius (46), Hendrena
1032 N Rose:
I do not know who Clarence W is- Ann Direct Refinery Service Sta h1411 March, Cornelius (Hendrena J) prin William St Christian Scholl h442 Norway Av, Dirk Jr. emp Fuller Mfg Co r1032 N Rose, Richard(Pearl) mach opr h1032 N Rose, My grandpa William, Carpenter Hanselman Bldg.
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My Great Grandparents - 1945
That was really neat to learn that I now possibly know the core to my father's law enforcement origins and him doing Dawn Patrol in high school was most likely due to this family member who was a Lieutenant Interstate Police Officer. Now it makes sense. See:
Edward (Ed) ( I spent time with him in Arizona in the 80's)- Lieutenant. Interstate Police Officer - then later Port Authority on the trains
Vera who married Edward but is my Great Grandma's sister *
their kids Patricia(13) (Patsy) and Roger (4)
My great grandpa Dirk boarder to Ed- Looking for mechanical work.
My great grandma Piercy boarder to Ed
My Grand Aunt Betty Ann (27)- worked Pinking Machine Operator- Dress Factory - she worked there 40 hours per week. --- wonder why she never married ??? My grandpa's sister - then we learn the next year by social media digging she did marry -
looks like the paper trail shifted for Grand Aunt Betty because she married:
looking further I found this:
she was always married to the same person.
Betty A married Ralph on June 16, 1951
a photo posted in 2012 of her and Ralph---
from a social media page of one of her kids:
hid his face based on I don't think by being blocked when I tried to reach out 6-17-24 that they would want his image public on my page
so redacted it-
but this is my grand aunt that was told to me as to be deceased when I was young, so something possibly took place because she lived a full life and was not dead as it was told to me.
I also found it very interesting when I said I was William's granddaughter- her twin brother's family- for the family to fast block was like ??? Either they just do that on social media or something ??? but I did make an effort to learn more about my grandpa's twin sister.
from Betty's daughter FB page:
when I awoke, I saw I was blocked from the page that I tried to reach out to ??? My mother said could be simple error like if people don't know someone on FB- they just hit delete or block- My mom said she has done that but either way journey was blocked. My dad's side in my teens told me she died and now her side just blocked me so something unknown [not free flowing] there- but it is what it is. Keep moving forward.
I will see my grand aunt when I go to Heaven. I made effort to bridge here on Earth - that is their free will.
this is a very sad moment for me but happy-
I am learning I was lied to growing up --- I was told Betty died
so to have the Ancestry.com bring me to these images learning I lived near her in the late 80's / 90's is hard for me
to think I could have met her in my lifetime, but certain family members robbed me of that. Very sad. Neat to see the words written about her and their memories of her:
this is where I found Papa's sister's married name:
Papa's Navy Enlistment Aug 18 1942- Discharge Dec 8, 1945
with all my security - how is this possible??? I should be the only one logged in--- let us go look...
Still looking online- this was misc. I saw for the name "Dirk" but still "unverified" and not yet fact checked but interesting so here to remind me to look it up and I am very tired....been at it all day...eyes are squirrely:
something about this image reminds me of my nephew:
1955
1940's census: $18 month rent.
March 24-30, 1940:
Dirk - transmission machinist (40 hours- $1500 for 52 weeks),
Piercy Home Housework
Betty housecleaner private home (48hrs a week) ($300 for 52 weeks),
Papa Farm Worker on Farm (48hrs a week)($500 for 52 weeks)
March 25, 1863 - May 5, 1913 8pm- just turned 50 - you are going to see which females in my family lived until their 40's/50's- One History of Pernicious Anaemia | Pernicious Anaemia Society (pernicious-anaemia-society.org) ... our RBCs has had a hard time travelling oxygen through the whole body.
1901 Van Zee Street:
BIRTH 13 APR 1925 • Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
DEATH 11 APR 2002 • Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America
1st cousin 2x removed
Dorothy
my 1st cousin 2x removed
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