We are happy to have you visit our family home page. If your family is related to Gerrit Kranendonk, please register your family. We are in search for our relatives.

Registering will enter you to the family mailing and email list. This is the best way to track our family members. Registration is completely secure as it is not linked to the web site. You may only access it with a special URL available to the Family Reunion Committee. If you need access, provide your descendency and you may be given access. This is done by email.

Our Family Web Site
As the family grows, we need a way to collect the family records in to one place. A Web site is the best solution where everyone can access the information. The family is now 5 generations and growing. It becomes harder to keep track on everyone.

As the older generation leaves, their stories become valuable to the younger family members. It is the Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren that the information is for. They wonder what their ancestors were like. We still need to gather the stories of the older generation, as these stories and histories are being lost with the passing of each generation. If we do not write the stories of our parents and grandparents now, they may be lost to posterity forever. It is essential that you record these stories and send them in for the family benefit.

Regardless of personal beliefs, you are family if you share Gerrit Kranendonk and Catherine DeHaan in your ancestry as I do! This web site is for all of us. We invite the families of Ray, Clyde and Elmer to join us in the use of this site. along with our many family members, and the resources that come from these records to their benefit as they see fit. I encourage all of us to share what we already have, and to share what we find. Hopefully, we will link ourselves together and feel a greater connection and sense of family in a larger scope.

Many of the family are not expert at using the features of web sites. The following helps will enable you to use the web site to greater benefit, and allow you to retrieve the information to your home computer. These instructions are for the PC. I am not the greatest authority for the MAC computers.

Create a folder to keep the files you download from the “Ralph S. Mills” web site. You may name it WillsWeb, or any appropriate name.

Photos
Any photo may be downloaded to your computer.

Right click the photo or graphic.

From the pop-up menu, select “save picture as” and click.

Find the path to the MillsWeb folder.

Click on the “Save” button.

Biographies
Biographies are specially designed for easy download to your computer. A file in Microsoft Word for Windows is provided for download. There are two formats, 8½ x 11 and 14 x 8½.

Open the biography you want to save.

Scroll to the bottom of the biography.

Right click on the format you want: 8½ x 11 or 14 x 8½

From the pop-up menu, select “save target as” and click.
(There may be a modified menu selection, depending on your browser version)

Select the path to the MillsWeb folder.

Click on the “Save” button.

The file will be saved as a MSWord2000 doc file.



Downloading other pages
Not all pages are available in MSWord format. However, any information found in the web site may be saved.

Open your word processor.

Go to the web page and select (highlight) the section you want to save to your computer.

Selection may be made in several ways.

1. From the “edit” menu at the top of the web page, go to the item “select all”. This will select the entire page. This may be too much. (See next item)

2. Click and hold down the mouse button. Drag it over a word, or the entire section.

If you drag the mouse over the first word and select it, then scroll down to the end of what you want to select.

Press the shift key and hold it down.

Click the point where you want your selection to end. The selected area will highlight.

Release the shift key. The highlighted are should remain.

Move the cursor into the highlighted area, and right click.

Select “copy” from the edit menu
      or
Press Ctrl+C to copy. (Press Control, hold it down and press C)

      then
Go to your word processor and select “paste” from the edit menu
      or
Press Ctrl+V to paste. (Press Control, hold it down and press V)

You may then edit and save the word processor, saving the selected section of the web page as a word processor file.