First document

Sometime in the early 1970s, Albert Everts wrote down the names of four generations of the Everts family tree for his children. Albert Everts also managed to tell us through tradition that our family should actually be called Janssen. His wife Thérèse Leyen recorded the Leyen side as far as she could remember. The 4th generation could still partially fill them.

Based on these documents, a first pedigree of the Everts family was drawn up.

Searches in the archives of Roermond

A few years later Dirk Everts went looking for the roots of the Everts family in the archives of Roermond. He managed to add a generation to the family tree, namely the mother of Henricus Everts who was unmarried when Henricus was born. Henricus's father would have been a certain Jansen, but the search did not provide any further clarification.

Dirk added a few extra generations to the family tree and made a pedigree chart of the Everts-Leyen family with his collected data.

Jos Everts continued digging in the archives of Roermond and supplemented the existing generations with a number of children and spouses.

On that basis, Luc Everts drew up a descendant of the Everts family, which started with Catharina Evers.

Picked up the thread again

Many years later, Jos Everts picked up the thread of the family tree again. In the meantime, the internet had made its appearance and the family tree could be expanded considerably via the databases of MyHeritage. Gradually, the archives of Belgium and the Netherlands became more and more available online. And thanks to a publication about the Hons family, the link between the Leyen family and the Limburg nobility could be established. Ludo Everts, in turn, was also infected by the family tree virus and concentrated mainly on family ties with the nobility and between the nobility themselves. This is how the family tree on MyHeritage grew to more than 10,000 individuals.

Wikitree

Some time ago, Jos started converting the family tree on Wikitree, carefully checking all sources. He discovered after a thorough investigation of all available sources that an error had crept into our family tree. The wrong Catharina Evers was included in our family tree. Another Catharina Evers was the mother of Henricus and in Henricus' baptismal certificate he found that the unmarried Catharina Evers said that Theodorus Jansen was Henricus's father and that the child was recognized by the subsequent marriage.