This genealogical record traces the remarkable journey of the de Windt family across eleven generations, spanning 354 years from 1555 to 1909. Beginning in Ghent, Belgium, the family's story traverses through the Netherlands and eventually to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao.
The de Windt lineage includes merchants, medical practitioners, innkeepers, skippers, naval captains, and surgeons. Their story reflects the broader historical movements of Dutch colonial expansion and settlement patterns across Europe and the Caribbean.
This document presents a direct ancestral line, with male individuals shown in navy blue and female individuals in pink, allowing for easy identification throughout the family tree.