What is the idea of DENISSEN.COM

One of the first things I looked for, as I did start surfing some years ago, was, if anybody with the name "Denissen" had a homepage or a website. The answer was "no".

Some months later I got in contact with Lindy from America and it seems that we could be some far away relatives.

DENISSEN.COM hopes to become the place where our internet based "family" meets.

How works DENISSEN.COM

You can't get web space at DENISSEN.COM, not for free and not paid for. At least not yet - but I am working on it.

But I will enter a free link to your excisting homepage, be it private, be it business - as far as you are a lucky one with the name Denissen and contributed a certain amount of information beyound "My name is Hank and I live in London".

So - I would very much appreciate, if you tell us, what you know about your family, where your ancestors came from, and so on. It will be put together on the "Where we came fron, where we are, where we probably will go" page. As you will see, these pages simply are named "Denissen Story" and "Dutch Denissen Story" or the appropriate country name.
To be more specific: I am just a Denissen like you all, I know a bit about my family, I know the names of some uncles, but I would have to ask other relatives, to get more info. Most of my direct relatives are dead ...
But I can tell you the very simple facts: To do a

BIG


family tree, that can help us find links between now different branches of our family, is for instance the information about the OFFICIAL names. I am called "Fred" (that's important to know), but my official names are "Godefridus Wilhelmus Petrus Maria". I will not find information about "Fred", but about the official one.
The next point is the corresponding birtday - and for the older ones the date of their departure. This can be very helpfull especially with aunts and uncles, as it can bring us to the point of a real good family tree.

What is to discover on DENISSEN.COM ??

If you take a look on the "sitemap", you will see that DENISSEN.COM has a rather clear construction. But if you just click your way through the pages, you will find a "main page" in 3 languages: dutch, english and german. On this "main page" you will find links to the countries where family members live and in the center a link to the "EXTRA" page. These country links lead to pages of the same construction and will in fact lead you to direct informations: like the PINBOARD page; the page with compiled infos from the pinboard as well as interesting parts of other mails I get; the DENISSEN Story for the specific country; the all-over-DENISSEN Story and last, but not least the link page with the WEB sites of our members, as far as they have an own homepage.
On the "EXTRA" page you will find the ROGUES GALLERY - a picture gallery of those family members that contributes infos on a regular base and those that have a link to DENISSEN.COM on their own page. The second part is the PICTURE GALLERY - a place to have family pictures on. But due to rather small web space on DENISSEN.COM, the pics itself have to be on your own web space and the pics are loaded from there. Of course the best thing is a link to your picture page (don't forget the back-link to DENISSEN.COM)
On the "EXTRA" page you will also find the "Family Tree" - the place, where all the infos about the family members are shown.
Also on the "EXTRA" page you will find the BIRTHDAY CALENDER - no explanation needed, I think.
You will here also find "NEWSLETTER" page, where you can find already sent newsletters.
There is also a page with "NITBITS" - a collection of funny, interesting or just odd items found during research. Here you will also find some beginners info, if you are interested in genealogy.

Maybe you already found or the weird "BackStage" page.

Did I forget something ?? Well, why not find out yourself ...


How to contribute ..

In fact it is very simple. You can use the email link at the end of this page, if you are a "Denissen". You can use the "pinboards" in the section of your country. Feel free - for whatever reason - to first contact me directly or somebody else you saw on the pinboard. But please understand, that the idea of DENISSEN.COM is to share your information with other Denissens.
Of course everybody is free to have any contact with any of the persons which names appear on this list.

Why not ...

In fact this is also very simple. If the link you gave me, leads to a site with any kind of illegal components, it will be erased forever; and you will not get another change with another link. I don't care, if you say, it would be your right of free expression to do so. You can do, if you feel so, but I will not support it on this page.

updated 1998.12.07