De Mengerink Website

A website about the family name Mengerink. What might be the reasons to make this site. Curiosity of course. Curiosity about the history and origin of that name. But it needs more to publish a website like this.

I hope future generations will find the basis of their existence in this site, namely their roots, their ancestors. I hope, with this website, to contribute to what is most essential to a family name: the ties between past, present and future that must be preserved. Thanks to the contributions of many, among them some enthousiastic American Mengerinks and a German genealogist, I hope to have contributed to genealogy in general and specially to the research for our family name.

But there is more ! Born and raised in Neede, the origin of many Mengerinks, that town’s history and the history of its inhabitants have always interested me. And my family name is as “Needs” as can be … I thought. Two triggers to start working. And as ever: there is some good and some bad news to this. The bad news is that the family name Mengerink might not originate in Neede at all. The good news is that Neede had a much older and  richer past then many believe. More about that in the Neede pages on this website.

Please notice that the English textual content of this website is (a) a subset of the Dutch language part and that (b) the text itself is changed and amended at some points to service readers who might not have the knowledge of all Dutch circumstances and contexts. Please be assured that this is not done for reasons of time or less interest, or whatever reason. It is done to service the non-Dutch visitors as best as possible, without having to swim around in the Dutch pages. But if you find that there is anything left out you might want to know, please feel free to contact me.

I want to end with a request to all who might think they can contribute to this site: send me an email. The Contact page contains a form to send me a short message. If needed we will use normal email after that. All contibutions are welcome.

Enschede, NL, March 2008
Gerard Mengerink