General Rose History

The Word of God in Dutch Comes to the Low Countries The Breath of God for Goert de Rosa (1560) Historical Note: As dramatized in another chronicle on Goert de Rosa, a fictionalized pirate story during the Spanish Inquisition, I’ve speculated that this first known ancestor in the Netherlands had roots in Spain. The reason for that story was to account for the old family legends about the origin of the first Roses–Rosas Spain on the Catalonian coast. Most careful genealogists

An Introduction to Rose Family “Bibliology” My Fond Memory When I was a young boy, an announced visit to my Grandpa Ed’s little house in Ortonville, Michigan was usually met with grumpy groans. There were many reasons I do not plan to share here. However, there was something in their front room (what we now call a living room) that managed to capture some boyhood imagination. They had a large oak table on a wall containing a lamp and an old, leather-bound book: the Rose Fami