This month we were surprised a few times. We received the results for our DNA test with 23andme. Add to that our appearance in the WikiTree Challenge and you will understand why we are so pleased. DNA We took our first DNA test in 2017 when we were attending Who Do You Think You Are Read more…
On this day exactly 400 years ago – 22 March 1621 – a man fled from his imprisonment in Loevestein Castle. His name was Hugo de Groot or Hugo Grotius, one of the greatest legal scholars of all time. His escape became world famous: he hid in a book chest and was smuggled out of Read more…
In the last few months we have received requests from clients in Australia, Canada and the United States who were looking for more information about their Dutch grandparents. Each of them had a very specific reason why they did not know much (or even anything) about their ‘oma’ or ‘opa’. Let us take a look Read more…