Privacy and genealogy are at odds with each other. According Dutch privacy legislation it is not allow-
ed to make information public about living people or even to collect them for other than strictly personal
use. Genealogists on the other want to reconstruct and share their family genealogy with others. Interested
family members would like to see their name as being part of it, but want to keep their `shoe size´ private.
A moral dilemma.

To meet all needs, this website publishes limited information of individual living family members. In the dif-
ferent surname genealogies the following information of living individuals can be found: 1). first name(s); 2).
last name; 3). place of birth; 4). family relation. This is a default privacy protection of `Pro-Gen´, the gene-
alogy software used. The information on this website can be adjusted at request for yourself and for family
members in the first degree (parents, children, brothers & sisters).

To help us reconstructing the different families, visitors of this website can fill out a Help Us form. Recei-
ved forms will be sent to the listed members of the Research Group. The information will also (in time) be
published on this website (according the privacy policy). Unless they specifically state otherwise, it is as-
sumed that contributors agree in this.

Surname bearers can (also) participate in the DNA-Project. For meaningful participation, testees are expected to share their direct male ancestry line
back to the earliest known ancestor. For this they can fill out a DNA Participants form. These forms will be sent to the other DNA project participants
and to the listed members of the Research Group. Testees can participate anonymously, except for their surname. Details of the testee and his father will
be omitted from the sent around DNA Participants form. The project leader will further act as an intermediary for correspondence.