Update November 2009

After an absence of six years the Reijer Goedhart family tree is back!

Please visit the website: www.reijergoedhart.nl





About The Goedhart Family website until 2003:

On the 12th of June 1999 my father became 65 years old. In February 1999 I searched for an original birthday present also because my dad retired on his birthday. I know my dad is very interested in everything that is related to his name and also he spent a lot of time searching for his ancestors. My first idea was to search on the internet for postal and e-mail addresses so I can print them and give to him on his birthday. When I found about 200 e-mail-addresses related to Goedhart and Goodheart the next idea was born. In February 1999 I opened an e-mail account on the Hotmail site ( boncoeur @ hotmail.com ) and sent a message to the 200 addresses I found. The first reactions became from several postmasters that the used addresses no longer exist. At the end of April about 40 people replied to my message, I gather a lot of information, invitations and kind words. The general tone of the messages was they all want to know more about their family specially the Goedhart's who aren't living in Holland.

To add more information to my "present" I also searched on several search-engines with the term GOEDHART. And so I gathered more Goedhart information. In May I visit for business a industrial-yard in Bodegraven (Holland) and saw a motorbike company with Goedhart on the front of their building. I received some information and the next idea was born. I want to search for Dutch companies to sent them a letter. I searched in the Dutch phonebook and found about 40 companies. At the end of May 1999 I sent my letters and received back a lot of information. So at the beginning of June 1999 I had a lot of information from all those nice people, people with a good heart ! So I thought now it is my turn to thank them and build a website.

The Goedhart Family Website

From 1999 until October 2003 I received a lot of e-mails from Goedhart's who signed the guestbook or add their familydata. All the data I received was published on the Internet so other Goedhart's can find their ancestors too. But more and more incoming data is related to living persons and publication of it is protected by Dutch law.

In November 2003 about 1700 Goedhart's were registered and published and 6500 visitors were counted.

The end

Because off the Dutch law (The Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens (Personal Data Protection Act) www.cbpweb.nl) and the knowledge that all Goedhart's who anticipate in this Special Birthday Project have seen the information I decide to quit with this website. My dad received all the data gathered and is still very busy to complete his files.

Thank you

I want to thank all the visitors and special the visitors who signed the Guestbook and also all the Goedhart's and Goodheart's who sent their family-data. A special "thank you" to Rico from Internet-provider DATAWEB who made this free website possible.

Bye
Otto Goedhart
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The Goedh-Art page is still available and below the site-history.

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