Available archival materials
image archive
Already archived categories:
- Everyday photos: photos of almost all branches in the period 1850 - 1950
- Everyday objects of the family 1650 - 1950
- Buildings: floor plans and photos of existing and defunct family buildings in the period 1500 - 2022
- Geography: Ground plan of the family estates in Rheiderland at its greatest extent in 1812
- Portraits: Individual family members of all eras.
- Coats of arms: Coats of arms and house marks of many in-law families
document archive
Already archived categories:
- Mortgage deeds
- sales contracts
- poems
- diaries
- letters
- Talk
- Documents
The family archive
The Spekker family archive includes well over 10,000 documents/photos and artefacts from all branches of the family.
Since the originals mostly remain in the families themselves, 75% are copies and files of the originals as well as photographs of objects.
The archive should serve to preserve the family history even in times when the family members spread further and further across the globe distribute and bundle the family history for future generations.