Keep The Past Alive By Learning From It

Rory J. Koopmans, B. Admin., #203, 8912-156 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5R 5Z2

April VIth, MMXI

Hon. David G. Hancock, QC, MLA, Minister of Education,

Progressive Conservative, Edmonton-Whitemud

 

Dear David:
 

If students want to truly enrich their lives, they should journey inII the past & research their genealogical history. Its truly amazing what you can learn about yourself & your modern family & how they all relate to past generations of family members. Back in the Netherlands, we had a researcher trace my dad's lineage back to MCDXX (1420.) The lives of my Dutch relatives were quite fascinating, before my family's last name was "Koopmans", it was "Broersma." Its definitely a thing students should be made aware of either on their own or as part of a Social Studies Research Project, or both.

In MCDXCII (1492) Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue,

Rory

Source: Myself.