“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth“ 
Who am I?

By asking yourself this question, you started a journey. It has enriched my life with many new friends  and experiences I never knew before.

Oil painting on canvas, View of Dordercht (from the Maas) by Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 –Dordrecht 1691), signed bottom left: A Cuyp, 1650.

Our ancestors

This site is presented with the hopes of preserving the memories of our ancestors. We owe them gratitude in their experiences and their lives.

The Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux or La telle du conquest) is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long and 50 centimetres (20 in) tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. It is thought to date to the 11th century, within a few years after the battle. It tells the story from the point of view of the conquering Normans but is now agreed to have been made in England.

Dordrecht

Dordrecht is my hometown and where I live today. The map is from “Blaeu’s Toonneel der Steden” Dutch city maps, (Willem and Joan Blaeu), 1652.

Dordrecht, Netherlands, from “Blaeu’s Toonneel der Steden” Dutch city maps, Edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu), 1652.

Emigrants to America

Any information about the surname Kloosterman and emigrants to America is welcomed. Please Email me, Thank you !

In the Land of Promise, Castle Garden, New York by Charles Frederic Ulrich, 1884. Castle Garden, today known as Castle Clinton National Monument, is the major landmark within The Battery, the 25 acre waterfront park at the tip of Manhattan. From 1855 to 1890, the Castle was America's first official immigration center, a pioneering collaboration of New York State and New York City.

Out of Africa 250.000 BCE
A diorama at the Nairobi National Museum portrays early hominids processing game with tools.

A diorama at the Nairobi National Museum portrays early hominids processing game with tools.

“The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA”
– Spencer Wells –

The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa.

Read my personal “Out of Africa story”
My ancestral migration >250.000 thousand years ago from North East Africa to Western Europe and finally sending my name to Mars on the NASA Perseverance Rover, 18-02-2021.

From Homo Sapiens (haplogroup A-PR2921) –> to me (I-FGC15105) and then on to Mars

From Homo Sapiens (haplogroup A-PR2921) –> to me (I-FGC15105) and then on to Mars

On to Mars 18-02-2021
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity and me!

NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity and me!

“Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA,
the language of molecular genetics and the narrative is unmistakable.
– Kenneth R. Miller –