VIEWS | 55K, Eight Most-Read Posts

This blog has passed 55,000 page views. Thank you for reading.

The eight most-read posts since inception of the blog are shown below.

Entry

AMSTERDAM | Herengracht + Keizersgracht (Updated A... Apr 11, 2016

BOISSEVAIN Gen7 | Eugen–Tough and Tender (Updated ... Nov 17, 2015

SENECA FALLS | First Day, July 19 Jul 19, 2015

INEZ | Led the 1913 Parade on Horseback Apr 20, 2013

BOISSEVAINS Gen4 | Daniel Sr. (1772-1834) Family G... Mar 16, 2016, 3 comments

INEZ | Her Herald Uniform 1913 (Update Aug. 5, 201... Feb 27, 2013

INEZ | Washington March, 2013 – The Deltas Mar 5, 2013

BOISSEVAIN Gen6 | The Charlestjes (Updated July 6,... May 7, 2016

BLOG VIEWS | 30K–Top Posts in February 2017

Dank je wel.  (I am on Level 7 of Duolingo's free Dutch learning program. 😇 Never too late to figure out what my Dutch-born grandmother and mother were talking about 70 years ago.)

Thank you for reading!

This blog site was started in 2013 and has passed 30,000 page views.

Please post your comments or email your blogger at john@boissevainbooks.com.

Here are the most-read posts in February 2017:

INEZ | Fund-Raiser for Socialists, 1910-1922 Jan 19, 2017
RIP | Robert Lucas "Bob" Boissevain (1922-2017) Feb 18, 2017
MILLAY | One of Top 5 Authors in 1936 Jan 28, 2017
NWP | Katharine Hepburn Feb 3, 2017
INEZ | Washington March, 2013 – The Deltas Mar 5, 2013
INEZ | What would she do today? Write to th... Jan 23, 2017
AMSTERDAM | Herengracht + Keizersgracht (Updated O... Apr 11, 2016
INEZ | Led the 1913 Parade on Horseback Apr 20, 2013
MILHOLLAND | John E. and the NAACP Nov 10, 2015
MILHOLLAND | Men's Leagues for Woman Suffrage,... Jul 22, 2015

INEZ | 20,000 Views–Top Posts

The Inez blog has just passed 20,000 page views. Total views for all of my blogs–1.2 million. Thank you for reading. Here are the most-read posts during the past month: BOISSEVAIN | Reunion 1992, Manitoba-Aug. 21-22 (Up... Jun 23, 2016

SUFFRAGETTE | Dorothy Day (Updated June 18, 2016) Jun 11, 2016

TAKE UP THE SONG | Music Jun 12, 2016

INEZ | NYC Parade Uniform, 1911 Jun 6, 2016

INEZ | New Short Film on Her Life Jun 26, 2016

AMSTERDAM | Herengracht Tour (Updated June 29, 201... Apr 11, 2016

AMSTERDAM | Keizersgracht Tour (Updated June 27, 2... Apr 7, 2016

BOISSEVAIN | LINKS Jun 12, 2016

BOISSEVAIN Gens1-9 | Tice's Numbering Jun 28, 2016

BOISSEVAIN | Reunions–2016 Is #11 (Updated June 29... Oct 2, 2015

INEZ | 5A. The March of the Deltas [13] Mar 5, 2013

EUGEN | 4. Tough and Tender (Updated June 24, 2016... Nov 17, 2015

BOISSEVAIN Gens1-9 | Tice's Numbering

Noah Sisk
Took a risk.
He spent his June
Off the dune. (Clerihew by JT Marlin.)
Here we are hard at work on the East
End of Long Island, June 2016.
L to R: Noah Sisk and John Tepper Marlin.

Noah Sisk, grandson of Pamela Boissevain and great-grandson of Tice Boissevain, has been working with me for a few weeks this month.

We attempted to finish the task that Tice was laboring over when he died in 1998, creating a numbering system for every member of the Boissevain family, male and female.

Part of his motivation may have been that he had three daughters, and they would be losing–in the normal course of things–the Boissevain name. The three daughters were all at the 2016 reunion in Amsterdam and were major participants in the walking tours of the Herengracht and Keizersgracht.

Noah and I have restricted ourselves to filling out Tice's documentation of the first nine generations of the family, starting with Lucas Boissevain who fled France after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes and made being a Huguenot a treasonous act in France.

Tice's numbering system has significant advantages over the numbering in the Nederland's Patriciaat:

• It includes the descendants of female children who in the past have not customarily retained the Boissevain name as their surname.
• It avoids Roman numerals, which are difficult to sort by computer.
• The system is an accepted genealogical numbering system called the Henry Method. 

I have added a few other innovations, for example putting in trailing zeroes to indicate the head of a group so that each column is sortable. There was a reason that the Romans were bad at mathematics–they lacked the zero.

I have assigned the numbers as Tice did in sets of three, one set in each of the first three columns. Shown below is the first page of the table, where the Krusemans (lost in the NP format) dominate the entries.

Noah and I are attempting to assemble the information in the form of a book. The first six generations are manageable as a single chapter. After that the table will have to be broken up into Family Groups–the Danieltjes, Jantjes, Charlestjes, and so forth as Tice did at the 1992 Boissevain Reunion, 24 years ago.

Boissevain Family, Gens 1-9, As Numbered by Tice Boissevain