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POOT FAMILY LINEAGE -- CONCISE PUBLIC VERSION
(no dates given for living persons)
by William Allison (e-mail: bill_allison@prodigy.net)

INTRODUCTION

This is a presentation of 14 generations of Poots in the direct family lineage of William F.
Poat. It needs some more work. There are a few words that still need translating to English
and a few names that will benefit from further research. I have included the data showing the
relationship of the famous poet H. K. Poot, but have omitted other early side branches to
make this version concise. The names of direct ancestors are highlighted with bold text.
The birth dates of living persons are not included in this public version for security reasons.
As I continue working on this I will release a family version with birth dates and as many
currently living descendents as possible. I am working on some updated graphical family
trees, because the old format was overwhelmed by too many generations of relations.

None of the previously published Poot genealogies include Jan Willem Poot or his
descendants. I suspect he was overlooked because he moved away from the family and
eventually went to America. My personal research of numerous archives in the Netherlands
for many regions and cities revealed our family lineage back to Pieter Jacobszn Poot (1744-
1805), Abraham Smits (1735-1816), and others born in the early 1700's. The overlapping of
consistent data between my research and the published genealogies enabled me to use their
data for earlier generations of Poots. Most of the early information prior to 1740 is from
genealogies published on the internet at:

www.jrpoot.eu (previously www.poot.nu )
This is a massive collection of several thousands of records of Poots from the 1500's to the
1900's.
The records in this collection are from the combined efforts of a family genealogist, Rob Poot,
and the submissions of other Poot researchers. It is the most comprehensive collection in
existence. He is merging some of my data, and the website now includes the birth of Jan
Willem Poot. This web site has assigned reference numbers to each individual. I have
included this number in square brackets after each name. This provides a searchable
reference, and can be used to locate additional information in the original Dutch language
genealogy.

www.xs4all.nl/%7Elhofland/index3.html
Kwartierstaten en genealogieën uit het Westland en Delfland
by Jacqueline Hofland - Poot
This is the culmination of her extensive research, but does not include our branch of the
family after the generation of Job Poot (1780-1830).

www.poot.info
An additional website that I have not studied in as much detail, but it appears similar to
www.poot.nu.

I do not know the Dutch language yet all of the information was originally in Dutch. This was
a problem; not only were many words not in translation books, some were not even in Dutch
dictionaries. There are three reasons for this. Dutch has provincial dialects. Some words
were archaic. Dutch spelling was not standardized. Recently, the Dutch Ministry of Education
issued a "new spelling list" for adults and children to use in an effort to standardize spelling.
I translated and merged as much information as I could from different sources.
Unfortunately, I had to omit indecipherable or confusing data. I have not finished all of the
translating and some of my wording appears awkward or is incomplete.

Poot Family Lineage - Introduction