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Rick van den Broeke just posted this at facebook community. A very interesting link of dutch family pedigree. You might find your family ancestor there.

My family, de wilde appeared in the page, but none of the names I could identify. I’m still looking if anyone have connection to Christiaan Laurens Willem de Wilde, he is my dutch great-great grandfather, and probably lived in Tegal in the late 1890s.

De Wilde itself is not dutch origin. It’s probably polish, as cited from this site:

Locality Wildau, called by the Germans Die Wilde, is a town of Poland, situated near the confluence of the rivers Wilia and Wiln, from whence its name is derived. Wild, a wilderness.

Though, strangely, Wildau is a name of federal state in Germany, as cited from Wikipedia:

Wildau, in the federal state of Brandenburg, is close to Germany’s capital city of Berlin and is easily reached by the Berlin S-Bahn. 9.500 Inhabitants (30 June 2005)

I found out that “de Wilde” is a typical name in Belgium, but rare in Netherlands. Maybe I should start seeking my Belgian root instead of Netherlands?