http://www.fam-org-pater.nl/ This is the place to be if you have the family name of Pater. It does not matter if you are one of my relatives or not. All of the Pater, Paters and De Paters are represented by this website. Ancestry.com is the top rated website for research on a family name but this is not the case any more. On this site you will be able to research your family history and believe it or not, my mother is not the only Boekhout that married into the Pater family. My own history is being worked on as I type this blog entry by Bram Pater our support point in the Netherlands. Pictures and stories of their lives are available to download and print. I invite you to go there and see what is offered absent of any charge. I am sure if you have any family history that you can contribute it will be gratefully accepted. Again I ask you to subscribe to the Paterje the quarterly magazine of this organization. Some of you have seen copies of the Paterje at our 100th reunion and have seen for yourself the quality of this journal. It is now in a little different format which probably saves them on shipping costs but I find it to be of the same quality I have come to expect. Subscribe and learn to interpret through the use of the internet. You will slowly learn the language of our forefathers and like me will be soon ordering a Dutch learning software course. I still use translation software but I can get a feel for what is in each article by what I have learned. You honestly don’t know what you are missing.
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