It was a sunny Saturday morning in June. I arrived at 9.45am in Bergen op Zoom, a former military town in the western part of the province of Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. This was the moment that I would meet an American couple: Jim and Kathy VanVliet of Tacoma, Washington. Four months earlier they asked me Read more…
Linda Van Drunen Crawford from Austin, Texas wrote me this February. She found information about her paternal line before, all the way back to the 1750s, and had plans to come to the Netherlands at the end of April and the beginning of May. She really wanted to visit the area where her ancestors once Read more…
A couple of days ago I visited Waterloo, one of the most famous towns in Belgium. It is only because of the defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo that the place has become so notorious. This year in June several crowned and uncrowned very important persons came to Waterloo for the commemorations of Read more…