Familytree updated

As of today there is a new version of the family tree available. Thanks to Kees the Hendriks family is included, new information is added and false information is corrected. The main forefathers of our Westra line are marked in red...

New webdesign and photos added

You may have seen it already because it has been implemented a while ago. We have a completely new look for our site! The structure has remained the same. Furthermore I have uploaded a couple of new photos to various galleries. Check out westra.info/galleries to view...

Webpages for some individuals updated

Finally some spare time to work on the site again! Today Wikke and I joined up to work on the pages of individuals. We inserted tables to organise the presented information and uploaded some new photo’s to the image galleries. Today we finally were able to do...

Trip to Westra hotspots in the North of the Netherlands

Last weekend (6 and 7 august) Sil land I went to Assen to find out more about our ancestors. Elly, Otto, Herman and Louise  where here before. You can read their stories in our Guestbook. First to go was ‘Huize Boschlust’.This is the mansion where Harmen Westra...

Westra findings on trip to Indonesia April 2011

My grandfather August Herlof Westra was born in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies (now the area of Kota in the city of Jakarta). He was send back to holland when he was 4 years old to be raised by his aunt. Unlike his father and grandfather August Herlof...