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This is a presentation of 14 generations of Poots in the direct family lineage of William F. Poat. It needs
some more work. There are a few words that still need translating to English and a few names that will
benefit from further research. I have included the data showing the relationship of the famous poet H. K.
Poot, but have omitted other early side branches to make this version concise. The names of direct
ancestors are highlighted with bold text. The birth dates of living persons are not included in this public
version for security reasons. As I continue working on this I will release a family version with birth dates
and as many currently living descendents as possible. I am working on some updated graphical family
trees, because the old format was overwhelmed by too many generations of relations.

None of the previously published Poot genealogies include Jan Willem Poot or his descendants. I suspect
he was overlooked because he moved away from the family and eventually went to America. My
personal research of numerous archives in the Netherlands for many regions and cities revealed our
family lineage back to Pieter Jacobszn Poot (17441805), Abraham Smits (1735-1816), and others born in
the early 1700's. The overlapping of consistent data between my research and the published genealogies
enabled me to use their data for earlier generations of Poots. Most of the early information prior to 1740
is from genealogies published on the internet at:

www.poot.eu

This is a massive collection of several thousands of records of Poots from the 1500's to the 1900's. The
records in this collection are from the combined efforts of a family genealogist, Rob Poot, and the
submissions of other Poot researchers. It is the most comprehensive collection in existence. He is
merging some of my data, and the website now includes the birth of Jan Willem Poot. This web site has
assigned reference numbers to each individual. I have included this number in square brackets after each
name. This provides a searchable reference, and can be used to locate additional information in the
original Dutch language genealogy.

www.xs4all.nl/%7Elhofland/index3.html

Kwartierstaten en genealogieën uit het Westland en Delfland by Jacqueline Hofland - Poot This is the
culmination of her extensive research, but does not include our branch of the family after the generation
of Job Poot (1780-1830).

www.poot.info

An additional website that I have not studied in as much detail, but it appears similar to www.poot.eu

I do not know the Dutch language yet all of the information was originally in Dutch. This was a problem;
not only were many words not in translation books, some were not even in Dutch dictionaries. There are
three reasons for this. Dutch has provincial dialects. Some words were archaic. Dutch spelling was not
standardized. Recently, the Dutch Ministry of Education issued a "new spelling list" for adults and
children to use in an effort to standardize spelling. I translated and merged as much information as I
could from different sources. Unfortunately, I had to omit indecipherable or confusing data. I have not
finished all of the translating and some of my wording appears awkward or is incomplete.

One problem is determining the meaning of the word "bouwman", which is listed as theoccupation of

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