The Kjærulf Family Tree
The story of the Kjærulf family tree is an exciting one of Kjærulfs noting down facts already from around 1600. Since then the family tree has been documented quite well.
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Kjærulf genealogy
The Kjærulf family has been described by a number of persons over the years. The most well known books are written by the following amateur geneaologists:
1) Bertel Kjærulf (1582 - 1672): not published.
He lived in Aslund, Kjær Herred. He was very interested in the Kjærulf genealogi and he wrote comprehensively about the Kjærulf family and knew quite a bit about the Clements War (fejde) (1533 - 1535).
2) Farmer Peder Laursen Dyrskjøt (1630-1707): not published.
He was a Kjærulf on his mother's side and his daughter married a Kjærulf. He knew Bertel Kjærulf personally and continued his work. He wrote two "books": "the large book" and " the small book" about the Kjærulf family.
3) Retired postmaster Carl Klitgaard (1868-1957): "Kjærulffske Studier", published 1914. 502 pages.
He used the material gathered by Bertel Kjærulf and Peder Laursen Dyrskjøt and studied several other sources when he wrote his book.His original handwritten manuscript and his supporting material is kept in the town of Viborg (Viborg Landsarkiv, Håndskriftsamlingen reg. nr. H1(10)-5).
The book is currently being translated into English by Anders Kjærulff-Knudsen (living in Hillerød, Denmark) and Erik Karoll (used to live near Los Angeles, USA). Translating the book is a big task being done in their spare time. As the translation progresses the text is placed on the Internet on the website:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kiermeet2010 which you can access and where you can enjoy the Kjærulf family story as it looked in 1914.
4) Charles Taylor Kierulff: "Twentieth Century Kjaerulfs",
published 1986. 432 pages.
Charles Taylor "CAP" Kierulff was born in 1919 and lives in Los Angeles, USA. For many years Cap collected pages from telephone books from all over the world. All the pages carried telephone numbers of Kjærulfs. When retired in 1982 Cap decided to systematise the information on Kjærulfs he had gathered and contact Kjærulfs around the globe. This led to his publishing of the genealogical book "Twentieth Century Kjaerulfs" in 1986. The book builds on Klitgaards book from 1914 and contains more than 8,000 Kjærulf names from at least 600 years back until now. By August 2003 the registered number of Kjærulfs in the genealogic database of Cap Kierulff were approx. 10,800.
You can still buy "Twentieth Century Kjaerulfs" in the Kjærulf Shop. Click on the Red Book:
You can also find the updated contents of Caps book and search for your relatives in the database of 10,400 Kjærulfs.(Click here)
Kjærulfs from the past (click to enlarge)
Victor & Andrea Kjærulff (TCK-180) celebrating their 50th anniversary 1936
with children and grandchildren (TCK-180+181)