This posting begins the American portion of the Jan Folkerts DeVries family tree which began in the middle seventeen hundreds. Egbert and Roelfien (Knapper) DeVries emigrated from The Netherlands to the United States in 1904 to begin a new life. Egbert and Roelfien can be identified on the blog picture as the fourth and fifth persons from the right in the front row. They were the ones with the courage to leave their familiar surroundings in The Netherlands and make their way to a new country and a new life in Kalamazoo, MI.
I have included the title picture in this location because when included in a blog posting, you are able to click on the picture and it will magnify to a point where you can really pick out individuals better than on the title photograph.
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