Hi Susan

Our Beckers branch is from Belgium; belgian Limburg and flemish Brabant actually, which is not very far from Sittard, but still, probably we're not related.
I've been able to look up our tree last year and ended up around the 16th century (all within Belgium).

The tree is not on-line yet cause of lack of time, but it will be some day.

BTW I'm "opa" as well since three years now :-)

Stay in touch if you like, to know where/when I'll be uploading the family-tree to the web.

Groetjes uit Antwerpen :-)
Ludo