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Hey other Knoops world-wide…my name is Derek Knoop and I am in Highschool in NJ. I couldn’t belive i found this site. I was just browsing the internet and found it.   There is so much to learn. I didn’t no there were so many of us.  I guess im sort of ignorant.  Thank You for making this site..love it so far…and i love the “prison break” joke.

Well my 8 year old daughter had a class cultural assignment and she wanted to research my maiden name and boy was I surprised to find this website!!! My name is Buffie (Knoop) Meeker and I live in Chander, AZ. My father is Frank Bellows Knoop Jr. and he lives in Deming, NM. His father is Frank Bellows Knoop Sr. and he lives in Holland, MI. I am going to dig out some family history and find some connections! Thanks for all this work! It’s been super helpful in completing her assignment!

Hello Knoops. Had no idea there were so many of us out there. My name is Joel Knoop. I own a video production company here in Michigan. I do location audio for film and video as well as shooting and editing the final product.
My sites are: http://pindropaudio.com
http://liveoutloudproductions.com

Anyway- I am trying to find out how my great great grandfather got to Butternut Wisconsin. More correctly how we got here from Germany and what our heritage was like there.

My fathers name is James Albert Knoop. His father was Arthur E Knoop of Milwaukee, his father was Albert W Knoop of Milwaukee, his father was Albert _ Knoop of Butternut, WI.

If anyone has any information I would greatly appreciate it.

I can be contacted at joel@liveoutloudproductions.com.

Thanks!

So far, the Toronto area has seen 195.2 cm of snow this winter – close to the the record set in 1938/1939 where 207.4 cm fell.  It has also been the coldest winter in 12 years.  Below are a couple of pictures from a dumping of 25 cm over the weekend.

Still nothing compared to the 410 cm of snow that Ottawa has had this year or what Canada’s east coast regularly sees.

../mk

Most of you are probably unaware that knoop.org has moved to a new server. The old server, affectionally known as peppie, has served knoop.org and several other domains without problem for years.

While I did move all email aliases to the new server, I will be contacting those who are getting free email address redirects to see if you are still using it.

For those technical minded people, peppie was a dual Pentium II running at 450MHz, a whopping 512MB of ram and 4 9.1GB U2W SCSI drives in RAID 5. The server has been on for just over 5 years and had only operating system reinstall out of curiosity, not necessity. Fedora Linux was the operating system used to run qmail, tinydns, Apache and MySQL. Below is a system snapshop just prior to permanently shutting peppie down.

top – 11:42:55 up 575 days, 22:25, 1 user, load average: 0.91, 0.27, 0.15
Tasks: 35 total, 1 running, 34 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.5% us, 7.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 69.2% id, 16.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 514520k total, 387556k used, 126964k free, 206200k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 1716k used, 1050532k free, 23772k cached