It is noteworthy that several members of this family tree migrated to the US: Jantje Boekema-Denkema from Kollumerland, Friesland, to Michigan, with 6 children, in 1867; Sake Wybrens Boekema, grandchild of a brother of Jantje, from Wartena to Manhattan, Montana, in 1913; Felix Antonius Boekema and one of his sons, Albert Mathys, from Noord-Brabant to Michigan, in 1920, where Felix joined two other sons.
"The journey home"