Hi My name is Philip Venninckx and my family comes from the Nederlands.

I've been trying to discover my backround with very little luck, mostly comming from the fact that I speak only tiny fractions of broken dutch that my nana and opa taught me.

My father passed away as did my Nana and Opa and my mother wasn't able to shed much light on the history of my last name or where my relatives might be, I tried searching many ancestry sites and it only gave me 5-10 people with Venninckx from the 1700s in Tilburg.

I tried searching the Dutch phonebook Telephoonigs and it only gave me 5-10 current listings for Venninckx and most of those were hypenated and I want to find out if those are my relatives or not but I'm not sure how to contact them in a way they might understand.

Any help would be great
Phil

Just call them and ask them in english , the most people can understand it here.

Yes it seems the best idea. Most people in belgium + The netherlands speak english even if only a few.

By the way, I have respect for your deeds. I hope you'll get what you're searching for

I think I'll try that, hopefully we get some more advice in case they don't, or don't speak it well enough to understand me

Maybe u can ask a dutch person to call for you , just a idea that came up.

Wonder if thats against the forum rules? lol

New offer to anyone that calls a Dutch Listing Venninckx gets 50 fg , unless it's against the rules

There are chances that they don't speak english. In that case you can choose for sending a letter to them. If you want I can translate it into dutch. The advantages of a letter are that they are not overwhelmed at the moment like a phonecall will be, next to that it's cheaper for you and they have a moment to do some research perhaps in the family. Disadvantage is that it is possible they put the letter on a pile and forget about it..

But did you use www.telefoongids.nl? using that service comes up zero for me with Venninckx names.. only Vennink (but this does not mean the name isnt use offcourse, but only it isnt commonly used and people who use it aren't registered in the phonebook.)

EDIT: I have to apologize, I see that the service of the telefoongids is acting weird when you select the netherlands as a whole when searching. it comes up zero, but when I select f.e. Venlo I get 7 hits so Venninckx is probably more common than I thought. That would mean that getting in touch with your relatives will become a bit harder.. do you know where your nana and opa were born? Perhaps you can contact the city by emial or something..

This post was edited by LAngel on Feb 22 2007 07:57am

i live in the us and i speak dutch ^^
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lemme know what you want and maybe ill be able to help you a bit more...

What a waste of your time....

why is it a waste? it's who I am and where I come from