With special thanks to R.M. Verniers, a cousin of my father, who in the 1970s did a great deal of work in the archive in Weesp, then still difficult to access. His research was eventually incorporated as the Verniers family dossier at the CBG | Centre for Family History (cbg.nl), where the family archive is held. That material will be gradually processed onto this site over the coming months; what is on the site so far comes primarily from other, not previously disclosed research — the work of R.M. Verniers himself will follow step by step. Below are two pieces from his legacy already, with a fuller acknowledgement to follow later.

Besides the work of R.M. Verniers, I have myself, as an amateur historian, found and gathered thousands of archival documents, numerous stories and all kinds of other interesting facts and trivia about the Verniers family over the past ten years, in my own family archive. This material too will in due course be transferred to the CBG, so that, like R.M. Verniers's work, it is preserved for future research. R.M. Verniers's research ended at Pieter Lourens Verniers, the first person in the line described in Weesp; I have since traced the line further back to our current stamvader, the eldest Mennonite Laurens Verniers.

The family tree of R.M. Verniers

The hand-drawn family tree that R.M. Verniers built up over the years.

Handgetekende stamboom van de familie Verniers door R.M. Verniers, horizontaal weergegeven met de wortels onderaan, jongste generaties geanonimiseerd

Family tree of the Verniers family, compiled by R.M. Verniers — anonymized for the youngest generations. See also the reference.

The ex libris

As a reminder of R.M. Verniers and his extensive work on the family history, below is his personal ex libris with the family coat of arms. The arms on this ex libris are a more modern rendering of the earliest known family coat of arms, dating from the seventeenth century. The design of the coat of arms is by Karel van den Sigtenhorst, according to the CBG (Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie) the finest heraldic draughtsman of the twentieth century in the Netherlands (CBG Familiewapens).

Ex libris R.M. Verniers met familiewapen, ontwerp Karel van den Sigtenhorst

Ex libris of R.M. Verniers — coat of arms design by Karel van den Sigtenhorst, source: CBG Familiewapens. This coat of arms also appears in the story about the family coats of arms.