Bea Wijma is a Wonderful WikiTreer

Question

Bea, our Dutch_roots leader, is one of the best, most active and effective Wikitreeërs, leaders for helping members to search and find reliable sources of Dutch ancestors. Not only is she very useful for beginners and advanced Dutchmen on WikiTree as mentor and advisor, but also very useful and helpful to the descendants of Dutch emigrants worldwide. Due to her great knowledge of the old Dutch archives combined with her knowledge of the Wikitree style and rules is of great value. In addition, she is particularly helpful and is always ready to assist others in their research. Thanks to her leadership and the ability to motivate others, in this case me, there are now Dutch help pages (Nederlands Portaal) that make Wikitree more accessible to Dutch speakers. She does more than I mention here, such as help with the South African Project, NNS Project, German Roots, Design Templates etc.

Bea, you are rightly the most reliable, friendliest and most helpful Wikitreeër I know. Deep respect and we are proud to have such a good Dutch_roots leader.

Joop

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I couldn't agree more! Bea's help both to me specifically and through her G2G comments have helped me so much. Thank you, Bea.

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Thank you Mary ! We all love to help and yes explaining things in G2G's and to work on Language Portals and help pages where everyone from all over the world, can find things explained and learn stuff by themselves and in their own language is really important, it makes people so much more independently and that's a wonderful thing eeh :) And it's all those enthusiastic members (like yourself) who are inspiring and motivating me, so we all are just as important to make WIkiTree work and a wonderful place :D

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Joop, I totaly agree with you. She's a very remarkable woman and I'm so happy I found this group of people with passion for genealogy flooding through their veins. Bea is a great leader who will always answer or react to every (stupid) question I have. Proud to know her.

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Thanks, Bea, for being at WT and responsibly assuming Project authority in your area of expertise. Those of us with Dutch Roots are fortunate to have our ancestors researched by such a capable team, and with a role model leader. Much appreciated.

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YES!!! This cousin of mine is really special and a Wonderful WikiTreer. Thanks for all the help, Bea!!!

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Hahaha thanks Margreet it's really a pleasure, and to (sort of) quote B.W.J's words, ''there are no stupid questions, the only stupid questions are the ones we never asked'' eeuhm not sure...but  it was something like that eeh :p

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Aaah Louise cousin ! It was so amazing to meet a cousin from South Africa trough WikiTree, I was jumping for joy when I realized we actually were cousins, I still remember how I loved to play with some wood carved elephants at my grandparents house, it was a souvenir from South Africa, so now I know they probably were visiting his sister and your grandmother Borgje :)

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Bea is the best!

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Thanks Keith you're pretty awesome also !

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Ooo (blush) thank you Joop and David, it's too much honor really, I'm just a tiny drop in this huge ocean filled with many many wonderful people who all are making WikiTree a wonderful place. I would not know what to do without all of you, it would be pretty boring if we all had to work alone and by ourselves eeh, meeting and working together with so many wonderful people from all over the world really is what makes WikiTree so extra special !

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Thank you Bea, I'm really impressed by your team leading skills.

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Thank you so much Anne x

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Thanks for all your great work Bea.

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Words can not describe her worth. She is an outstanding leader.

Thanks Bea for being such a wonderful and awesome leader and person.

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And Thank YOU Joe, love to work with you also ! Always great research and collaboration !

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Aah baie dankie Ronel, as you know I love all those wonderful people from South Africa, two wonderful Projects and really great teams . Your pretty amazing yourself also and a true and very dear friend and I am so glad we met x

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Bea, I have to agree with everyone else.  I think a special category of thanks needs to be created for you.  You do everything mentioned, and you do it with grace that makes people want to be involved in Wikitree.  Your encouragement has meant so much to me.

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Here's to the woman who single-handedly added "Greets" to the WikiTree English language - a Wonderful WikiTreer in both word AND deed.  Thank you, Bea, for all the good that you do daily here.

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You're very special to me Bertram , thank you for your kind words..it's too much really (everyone), but very much appreciated x

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Thnk you Chet for your wonderful words. I'll take that as a compliment eeh, so many new and unfamiliar words and so many languages, so I sometimes just make sort of a mix, in a while we will have our own WikiTree World Language Dictionary wouldn't that be fun :D

Greets from the Netherlands, I used to say Holland until Doug explained me with a funny movie we lived in the Netherlands ;)

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Absolutely ALWAYS a compliment for you, Bea.  You are a WikiTree hero.

Greets back to you - today from Champagne, France, my wonderful wife's home.

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Thank you, Bea Wijma! I appreciate all of the help you have given me! The help you so willing give to all WikiTreeers is one reason WikiTree so special! 

Thank you!

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Thank you and it sure is A. Carrol ;)  what's making WikiTree so extra special and a great place is we all are working together and helping each other on our huge shared WikiTree..beats every puzzle game that was ever invented and it's a great way to learn all about our world History.

Answer 2

Yes, Bea is a Wonderful WikiTreer and has made many contributions to the Wiki Community. Thank you Bea!

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Thank you for the compliments and kind words Weldon, I love all team(s) and members, you all make it so much fun and really worthwhile !

Answer 3

Hoor-hoor!

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Hihi thank you Dirk, you're a wonderful WikiTreer also ! x

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I should have been on top to agree with Joop. I am sorry girl........... 

ALL I KNOW at WIkiTree I got from this wonderful women that probably is consisting out of more than 5 persons. Sometime there must be at least a team of 10 sitting next to this wonderful leader at the Mansion "Wijma"  typing at high speed  to answer all her e-mail and comments to profiles. Deeeeeeeeeeeep bow Bea. I would not be able to do what  you do. WikiTree should give/honor you a golden crown badge!  And I know you do not need it and are okay. I just want all to know how important you are for this great group at the Dutch_Roots_Group and how you make us like to work at the Dutch-Roots. It is what you attrack!  Deep Knicks! 

Bea, your patience is endless. I love the way you look at things and I learned so much of you and still do. Giving people room to have their own opinions, but also firm in protecting things that were achieved at WikiTree and your ways are so Dutch I love!!  but is also very polite and sweet. I watched a documentary of van Oldenburg tonight... He ended so wrong. But his thoughts and his way at his live were just so great. So Dutch. I still like to see our country being like that. And the way he was working reminded me of you. (hahaha just not wishing of course his way he ended!!! lol Sorry!) 

You re always kind and thankful. So happy you have Jan besides you. So thankful to him too! 

I WikiTree love/like many here at WikiTree- a l O T- but 

my number 1 at WikiTree is just Bea Wijma. 

 

Teacher, helper and the most loyal and reliable WikiTree Friend here.  

:D Enough as I know you hate this and it starts to smell here!! 

Bea just, and you know, be sure you have a great team that just replies to your support by being here to help at any.

Good time to thank you BIG TIME for all the hours/months I asked you sooooooooooo many questions and  you spend so much time to explain to me. I will never forget. 

 

Keep the good things up! 

 

A. 

 

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Astrid, nou gaat ze straks van verwaandheid nog naast haar schoenen lopen, dat mocht ik alleen maar.....

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Joop ik hou ook van jou. Hahaha dus doe je best! Tot nog toe jij. Nu Bea ff een beetje....... Zet het raam vast een beetje open........ :D

En zelfs als Bea gaat stinken...............

Bea mag dat best een beetje (niet te veel, maar dat gaat ze niet doen. DAAROM!). Ze is gewoon GOUD!

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Thanks it's really all waaay too much honor Astrid..but thanks and as I said earlier, it would be pretty boring if we would have to work all by ourselves and I really would be lost without all of you wonderful WikiTree members and Project teams. We all are equal and just as important to make WikiTree work :) 

Joop playing soccer ;) 

 

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Lief, ik pluk elke dag de vruchten van jouw hulp. 

The way you lead, without telling how to, but giving everyone freedom to find out but with a kind leading hand is just precious.

Cheers Bea! 

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She is a top contributor and could teach the Masterclass on Dutch Genealogy. Bea rocks!

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Aaw that's really too much and..I'm for sure too shy for it :P, but a huge compliment ..thank you Rod !

Answer 6

Let me lend my voice to the chorus of praise for Bea! We worked together in the past on the Decuir family of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana.https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Decuir-1285

She makes it fun. Thanks, Bea!

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It's what I love the most about WikiTree Jaqueline, working together on families is so much more fun then working alone ! So thank you also you're a wonderful teammate and friend ! :D