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…
RoundTable Cultural Seminars will be hosting a seminar, called New York’s Dutch Beginnings: A New Appreciation of New Netherland and New Amsterdam in March, April and May 2021. In six sessions attendees learn more about this fascinating part of New York’s history. The seminar is interesting for everybody who wants to know more about the Read more…