Hollenkamp Name Study

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Location: Global
Surnames/tags: Hollenkamp Hollencamp

About the Project

The Hollenkamp Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Hollenkamp name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Hollenkamp name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (e.g Dutch Hollenkamp's, US Hollenkamp's), by time period (18th Century Hollenkamp's), or by topic (Hollenkamp DNA, Hollenkamp Y-DNA, Hollenkamp Occupations, Hollenkamp Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Hollenkamp Name Study, first, start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Sven Elbert for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

• Hollenkamp Name - Meaning
• Hollenkamp Name Distribution Overview
• Hollenkamp Name Study - Approach and Sources
• Hollenkamp Y-DNA Project
• Hollenkamp Lineages
• Hollenkamp US Immigrants
• Hollenkamp - Occupations
• Browse the categories used for the Hollenkamp Name Study:
  • Category: Hollenkamp Name Study Maiden Names: A list of profiles that show the maiden names associated to the Hollenkamp Name Study
  • Category: US Immigrants, Hollenkamp Name Study: Hollenkamp's that have immigrated to the United States of America
  • Category: Netherlands Immigrants, Hollenkamp Name Study: Hollenkamp's that have immigrated to the Netherlands
  • Category: Hollenkamp Family Brick Wall: A list of brick walls in the Hollenkamp name study.
  • Category: Hollenkamp Name Study - Has Research Questions: A list of profiles with research questions where help is needed to answer them.

How can you contribute in 2023?

The Hollenkamp name study project has been running on Wikitree since August 2022. By December 2022, we had been able to create more than 450 profiles and identified a lot of lineages and their branching points. The vast majority of profiles, however, are still very basic in the sense that they only contain information on dates and places of births, marriages and deaths.

We are therefore calling on YOUR expert knowledge to help paint a more lively picture of the "Hollenkamp clan", and are looking for a broader and more diverse set of family researchers, genealogists and historians to help us out in 2023.

Bearers of the Hollenkamp/ Hollencamp name and their relatives

If you are Hollenkamp / Hollencamp yourself, or a relative of a Hollenkamp / Hollencamp, then please feel encouraged and contribute your

1. family photos or documents
2. familystories and memories
3. other Hollenkamp "paraphernalia", e.g. beer bottles, clothes hangers, business envelopes, etc.

Any tidbit, no matter how small it may seem to you, will be an extremely valuable piece of information for this study, and help to create more vivid and lively profiles. We want to know what it means to be Hollenkamp, what it means to be Hollencamp, and where the differences might be ;)

Genealogy beginners, intermediates and pros with a special interest

The WikiTree community holds expertise in so many different areas, and the study has already seen great benefits from this community in so many ways. It is like standing on the shoulders of giants. Therefore, we thought we should advertise a broader set of entry points into the Hollenkamp name study to lower the entry barrier for local, regional, military, occupational or migration experts. Here are a few options to see if you have some overlap with the name study:

Location experts If you are an expert for a particular location, please check the Hollenkamps in your area - we have associated them based on birth, marriage or death location to the following categories:

• Germany
  • Ankum, Niedersachsen
• Netherlands
  • Beemster, Noord-Holland
  • Purmerend, Noord-Holland
• United States of America
  • Alameda, California
  • Aviston, Illinois
  • Carlyle, Illinois
  • Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Dayton, Ohio
  • Louisville, Kentucky
  • Lexington, Kentucky
  • Santa Rosa, California
  • San Francisco, California

If you are familiar with the area, check out the profiles - maybe you can add godparents, neighbours, witnesses, best men, pastors? Or maybe information from local archives like local newspaper, probates, land records or other local history information to the profiles?

Military experts If you are a military or a war expert, you might find that Hollenkamps / Hollencamps served in conflicts that are of interest to you, or maybe they even fought in the same regiment like your ancestor did? Definitely, you might have some information to share that makes reading Hollenkamp profiles more interesting.

Here is a list of conflicts where Hollenkamp's had served their countries:

• American Civil War (1861-1865)
  • Henry Hollenkamp (1840-1870), 108th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
• World War II (1939-1945)
  • Bernard Francis Hollenkamp (1918-1943), 35th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, United States Army Air Forces
  • Lorraine Marcella (Hollenkamp) Wall (1920-1994)
• Korean War (1950-1953)
  • Lorraine Marcella (Hollenkamp) Wall (1920-1994)

Membership

• Sven Elbert (Name study coordinator)
• Cheryl A Rowley

Community

To join the community for Hollenkamp genealogy research, you are happily invited to join our Facebook group and say "hello":

• Hollenkamp Genealogy Research Group

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Halenkamp
• Hollencamp

Hollenkamp / Hollencamp Sources

• Fulcher, Ron: Hollencamp & Co. - Sixty Years of Brewing in Xenia, Ohio and the Fight Against Prohibition, BDATR, 2014 (1st printing), 2021 (2nd printing).
• Hollenkamp, Timothy B.: Dayton Valor: The Heroic Journeys of Two Ohio Brothers Who Fought in World War II Bombers, Twenty-Four Publishing, 2023, ISBN 9798218166137.