Talk:Van Tuyl

Removal of self-published tag
This is notice prior to removal of the self-published tag. The "improper references to self-published sources" appear to have been removed.

Please keep any discussion on this talk page.

Primary sources remain, however this a different matter. Wikipedia both allows and discourages primary sources. It forbids original research. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OR :"Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources." In genealogy primary sources are highly valued and encouraged in citations, so there is a culture clash here. There may be something for both Wikipedians and genealogists to learn here. Currently both primary and secondary sources are cited.

Ggpauly (talk) 21:37, 3 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I have cited a source written, in part, by Rory Van Tuyl and published for him, namely The reason I cite it is two-fold, unlike most self-published books this one appears to be a scholarly work and does cite reliable sources. The main reason that it was self-published appears to be the limited audiance for a Van Tuyl family history. I note that it is held by over thirty libraries in the United States — public, academic and special libraries. It is also held by several libraries in the Netherlands. The second reason is that it indeed does have a fuller description of Otto and Aert van Tuyl's sailing activities. In fact, it appears to be the main developmental source for this article. So far the sources in the article that I've checked are ones that are cited by Rory Van Tuyl in his book. (This of course does not apply to the section that I added on the Caribbean.) --Bejnar (talk) 08:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Van Tuyls in Dutch possessions in the Caribbean
An IP editor deleted the references to the Van Tuyls in the Dutch possessions in the Caribbean (including citations), without stating a reason. I have restored the paragraph, and invite interested parties to discuss its inclusion or exclusion here, with reference to Wikipedia guidelines and policies. --Bejnar (talk) 21:09, 18 February 2015 (UTC)


 * On 7 April 2015‎ IP editor 73.202.153.123 in reverting the Caribbean information indicated in an edit summary: There is no known evidence linking Caribbean Van Tuyls to the family in this article. It took a while, but I call editors attention to the book  (listing of baptisms and members of the Lutheran church of Curaçao, 1757-1825). There are several Van Tuyls listed.  Also, I may point out that the exact genealogical relations of the other more recent people listed in the article are not documented.  The name establishes prima facie evidence of familial relationship, and as is documented many people without last names took the surname of the estate, their landlord, the steadholder. We are not talking strict genealogical relationship but familial, which includes descendents of former tenents and servants.   But for the record, one of the lines in Honduras came from Robert Van Tuyl, a seaman, who moved from the Netherlands to the Yucatan peninsula, and fathered William Erasmus Van Tuyl (1911 - 1981) who moved from the Yucatan (Qintana Roo) and started a family in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.  --Bejnar (talk) 07:40, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Automobile business
In verifying this article, I came across news stories and even one in Forbes that talked about the Van Tuyls owning the second largest automobile dealership group in the United States. I was surprised that none of this was mentioned in the article, but perhaps that is because it wasn't really discussed in the text that the Wikipedia article creator appears to have used as a developmental source for the article, namely. The Van Tuyl involvement in the automotive industry was barely touched on on pages 416–417. --Bejnar (talk) 08:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)