We have tried very hard to establish if we were related, but cannot find a confirmed link. I love Jeanine Desmet and Paul Lievrouw. We seemed like family right away when they came to visit. Such good people. They knew my cousin Maria Hoffman Lievrouw, who had homes in both Brussels and Dentergem.
I feel we are related in the heart! Somehow, my father's parents had 19 children. My dad was the second youngest, his sister Alida being the youngest. Surely in this large family there must be some cousins somewhere! As far as I can figure out, my father (Jules) was the only one of his family who moved to America. Although Maria made many trips to visit us - and was goingt to move here before her untimely death.
In a small country like Belgium, it seems to me that some where back in time, there must have been one Lievrouw family that started it all! I am very proud of my Belgian heritage.But, I cannot discover if my father's parents had sisters or brothers or cousins - or what their backgrounds were.
I have been trying for years to trace the Lievrouw people here in the United States; but I have had no luck in finding close relatives; although I have met corresponded with many, good Lievrouws.
I do a lot of writing and am working on my Memoirs. I write a full page for the newspaper every other week about Senior citizens in this area. I would like to leave a record of what I think and feel about things for my great grandchildren. I wish I had known my grandparents.
