Researching Jacob Cats
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The name Jacob means "the supplanter" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jacob Cats on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jacob Cats and the Cats Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cats Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Cats family tree.
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Jacob Cats (painter)
Jacob Cats, an excellent Dutch draughtsman, who also etched and painted, was born at Altona in 1741 as the son of a Mennonite bookseller who had to flee Amsterdam because of a controversial publication. The family returned to Amsterdam after a few years. He studied under Abraham Starre and Pieter Louw. Initially he worked for the wallpaintings firm of Troost van Groenendoelen, later he established his own firm where he collaborated with i.a. Egbert van Drielst. As the market for wallpapers diminished, and his fame as a draughtsman rose, he started to focus uniquely on the latter. He was celebrated for drawing townscapes and landscapes with realistically rendered persons and animals, his works having a distinct originality, and being marked by a poetical rendering of the features of nature, as well as by careful manipulation. He also created a good feeling of depth in his work. They are often suggestive of seventeenth-century artists such as Adriaan van de Velde and of Berchem, and are highly valued. He also copied some paintings on a smaller scale, and has left some etchings. He died at Amsterdam in 1799. His work is represented in nearly all major public collections in the Netherlands, such as the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Museum, Teylers Museum and the Amsterdam town Archives stadsarchief Amsterdam. Drawings of his are also in the collections of e.g. The British Museum, Courtauld, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pierpont Morgan.
Source: Jacob Cats (painter), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Cats
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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