The making of a family tree takes a lot of time and this information has been made possible through the escalated hobby of Jos and myself and the friendly cooperation of all persons who contributed with amendments, corrections and photographic material.

The development
It started in the early fifties when Piet Hoetjes got on his bicycle and travelled through all of North-Holland to collect family tree information concerning the Hoetjes family. He was quite surprised when he found some family members spelled as Hoedjes. A spelling error he assumed, not knowing that all Hoedjes family members are part of the very same family. This family tree information, about 30% of its current size, was put away for about 40 years until it was discovered by Paul & Caspar Hoetjes in uncle Piet's cupboard. Paul could read uncle Piet's handwriting better so that he put it in into a word processor, whereafter Caspar entered this data into a genealogic programme. A Genealogic survey is mearly impossible from abroad (Paul on Curacao and Caspar in Germany) as the main job is digging around in the archives of churches and townhalls.
But internet has it's merrits and soon we came in contact with Peter Hoetjes from the Hague (Branch of Leendert Hoetjes). Also Peter was active in finding his roots so we could join our data of 2 entirely separate branches which they still are today. The breakthrough came when I got in contact with Jos Scholten, who's mother in law is a Hoedjes. Jos had spent considereable time and effort to search through the archives of Noord-Holland. He had also requested many families for further information and fotographic material. His information was not only enormous in size but was also important to compare and confirm informations. The information of the current genealogy as shown on the homepage is the combination of the 3 sources as described above.