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This is a list of genealogy resources related to our Dutch ancestors, which I would very much like to get my hands/eyes on. If you have access to any of these, please consider sharing! (Update: I originally compiled this list 13 years ago and there’s a ton of information that has come online since then, including some of these sources. It’s by no means a complete list but I have gone through and updated it with links to documents as I have found them)

The Van Vuuren Clan booklet, Vanderbilt Press 1952

Created by the 1st Reformed Church of South Holland IL for their 100th anniversary. Elizabeth Hine Walker copied information from a copy she found at Hazel’s apartment. I’m not sure who has it now.

DeJonghe, DeJong, DeYoung and Related Families “Blue Book”

A family genealogy produced in 1956 by Aeneas George DeYoung, published by The Vanderbilt Press, operated by Jacob Vanderbilt, another descendant. FOUND! Click here to view

DeJongh and Allied Families by Dirk P. DeYoung, published 1934 in Avenel NJ

You can download a PDF of this here, although I don’t think our family is included…however I will admit I haven’t read it thoroughly!

Family Tree Maker Immigration Records: Dutch in America, 1800s, by Robert Swierenga.

I don’t remember what this is but I think Family Tree Maker is software. Nevertheless Robert Swierenga is the goat and swierenga.com has many interesting sources. Hekman Library at Calvin University in Grand Rapids MI also has a massive Robert Swierenga collection.

Where The Trails Cross

Volume 32, Issues 3-4, Articles: “Early Dutch settlers of Roseland, 1849-1900” and “Jacob DeYoung family, b.c. 1868”. I would also like to see Volume 35, Issue 4; and Volume 37, Issue 3. SSGHS has these on file.

South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society (SSGHS) in Hazel Crest, Illinois

Here’s an extensive list of resources available at the library specific to Dutch family research. I enjoyed my time there very much and would love to go back and spend days there.

Chicago Public Library Documents

The Chicago Public Library has more than I could pore over, probably ever. Here are a few items and collections I made a list of back in 2009, however I never made it to the library on that trip:

• De Jong family, heirs of Jacob and Jan De Jong, quit-claim deed, 1886 Dec 30. Oversize-CRCC 1.3
• Jacob De Jong, naturalization papers, Chicago, 1855 Jan 2. Oversize-CRCC 1.4
• Special Collections and Preservation Division
• Neighborhood History Research Collection, part of the Special Collections Division
• Calumet Region Community Collection

Dutch Chicago: a history of the Hollanders in the Windy City By Robert P. Swierenga

This is a big fat book that I now own and also found a digital copy of.

The Dutch Communities of Chicago

By Amry van den Bosch, phD, assistant professor of political science, University of Kentucky, printed by Carlstrand-Rook Company for the Knickerbocker Society of Chicago, 1927. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Saved to Hine Archive here.