Adriaen Gerritsz van Wijk - NO EVIDENCE that Gerrit Jerephaesz van Wijk was the son of Margriet van Hattem or the father of Adriaen Gerritsz van Wijk...

Started by Private User on Sunday, October 16, 2016
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The is currently NO EVIDENCE that Gerrit Jerephaesz van Wijk was the son of Margriet van Hattem or the father of Adriaen Gerritsz van Wijk. MyHeritage user family trees do NOT count as sources unless they cite actual sources, as the current info in the MyHeritage user trees are more than likely all copied from a single ficticious source. If anyone has some actual documentation, please share it.

Agreed, Dieter. I will cut the connections until we find real sources.

Gerrit Jerephaesz van Wijk and Margriet van Wijk

Sharon, haha, you cut the connections before your message!!!! :)

However, I do agree regarding MH = no valid source, but I also found that there is a FamilySearch source under Sources - just unable to follow it and manually unable to reach it too. I know that there has been made, for over a decade, claim to the fact that the Van Wyks are royalty so I would expect a lot of comments from perhaps more direct family than myself.

I don't think I did; although I'm not sure that Geni registering a minute either way matters? I wanted to be sure we had links to them in this Discussion, so that we can keep tracking the Sources to them.

I think the Family search source was just another user tree - more than likely copied from Geni or MyHerritage - not an actual source. Hopefully the cutting of the connection will motivate people to actually look for the evidence.

@Jan Blomerus: There are quite fankly a lot of Afrikaans families claiming to be descended from royalty. There is good evidence from Johan van Hattem down to Margriet van hattem, and a good line of evidence from South african van wyks up to Adriaen Gerritsz van Wijk, but it's where they connect that there seems to be no evidence as of yet.

Thanks Dieter. Still no sources provided? I'll add a Curator note to the profile too. Hopefully that prevents the disputed parents being added back accidentally, until someone finds the sources.

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