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Job: Not much to tell here, as I am enjoying my pension
Principal tasks: None luckily, excepting my hobby.
The Rantzau clan, and experiencing interest from varying sources.
E-mail address:maaik63@hotmail.com
Web address:
home.hccnet.nl/v.d.plas Well, you are there, aren't you?
I changed my location, because I had trouble uploading. I now have more than 300 files, and the system at geocities asked for identification of every single file, collecting them in batches of 15 each. That became too cumbersome.
Researching the Family:
* My own parents Not very interesting, as all of them were manual workers or peasants. However, thinking I was the last of the tribe, I discovered 2 lost branches.
* My wives' parents:
* My first wife (Danish) The same as above, with one exception! I am still busy finding all her ancestors. In the meantime I found more. To make sure I don't run out of work I'm now trying to find all descendants of the male line forefathers in my daughters' 4 quarters, starting from around 1800. It gets difficult when you run into a Lars Larsen! (and have to trace hís descendants from the telephone directory ) In the Danish lines I am nearly finished, also with the female lines.
* My second wife (Dutch-Chinese-Indonesian) Alas, the data are in Djakarta. A friend of mine, with the same problem, discovered it took a week to process an application for a particular document!
I am a 74 year old Naval Architect by profession. Some 10 years after I finished the (Delft) Technical University, shipbuilding in Europe went into a slump.
I joined the army (Quarter Master General Services), more in particular the Corps of Engineers, as a civilian. There I enjoyed doing a lot of things I did not know anything about. Never a dull moment! I finished doing technical management policy, such as Quality Assurance and Configuration Management. I had a lot of fun understanding when Americans and Brits started to misunderstand each other (let alone the others!) while working in a NATO Group on a glossary of Configuration Management terminology. That's about as far away from shipbuilding as you can get.
Having been born curious, and never been cured, I enjoy following, at a leisurely pace, all the wonderful discoveries of modern science. Astro-physical, bio-technical, evolution, brain knowledge, archeology, the lot. Lately, for obvious reasons, I got particularly interested in DNA, especially after reading the Thomas Jefferson story. See the similarities!
Alas, the Danish crowd is not interested in funding it, and my research is expensive enough to start with.
Last changed: Autumn 2004