It is not clear why he chose that name. This information may well have remained buried in obscure records, had it not been for the persistence of retired factory worker Frans Hoogewoonink who carried on his father's interest in family history. Hoogewoonink, who belongs to a Roman Catholic branch of the Hogewoning clan, used his spare time to visit others who carried the common family name or its variations. Bitten by the genealogy bug, Hoogewoonink turned his sight on Rijnsburg where the main Hogewoning-clan was still living. He found the distant Rijnsburg cousins to be interested as well in family origin.
Many genealogies are documents loaded with vital statistics.
To the publisher's credit, the Hogewoning volume reads more like a history book, as many entries are accompanied with a thumb-nail sketch on the person's trade or business, personal information such as ability to read and write, and about locations where they lived. Jacques, a long-term board member of the Royal Dutch soccer league. As may be expected, the Hogewonings were not isolated from changes in Dutch society. The book mirrors many such influences. For example, in the seventeenth century there is a branch of which it is noted that it belonged to the liberal Remonstrant church while later there are those who through marriage became Roman Catholic.