Mary,
Sorry that I havd not been able to e-mail you. I don't think we are talking about he same Kooi family, at least in the U.S. My family imigrated to America about 1920. They came from around Niekerk in Groningen, which is in the northern part of the Netherlands.
My E-mail address is
djabaay@kdsi.netYour name sounds familiar to me. I came from Munster, Indiana and my wife came from South Holland, Illinois. We both graduated from Illiana Christian High Schoool in Lansing, Illinois. Nice to hear from you.
Don Jabaay