Welcome

You have landed on Interstruif's website. If you want acces as a registrered member to this site, just send me a message (use contact form). For info on our family follow the link to genealogy...

This website is bilingual Dutch-English. For each language there is a dedicated set of menu-tems. The choice of hte language is made tru the language-settings of the users' operating system or by choosing the flag on top at the  left side. When you choose another language you will get a different menu, but you might experience difficulties in reading in case the chosen language is not your native tongue...

Interstruif is a nickname of course. The nickname has a history in celebrating carnival and emigration. It is an abreviation of "internationale struif", "struif" is a nickname used for the people of Alphen (North-Brabant). It is an alias of Mathieu Roelands. He was born in Alphen,  North-Brabant, Netherlands in 1962. These days he is living together with his wife Ann in 's Gravenwezel, Antwerp, Belgium. His job is mainly being an emergency-nurse in a general hospital in Wilrijk, Antwerp-city in the province Antwerp, Belgium. At this time (2023) he is working in different hospitals as a flexible nurse. As a hobby also active as paramedic on an ambulance-service a few times a month...

Building and maintaining websites is also a bit of a hobby. An other hobby is genealogy, reconstructing the family history and finding reletives to our family Roelands-Boeren (both fatherside and motherside).  This website is a combination of both...