One of the questions I often get from clients outside the Netherlands, is: “can you find records that tell when my family left Holland?” Recently, a new source has become available to answer that question: the passenger lists of the Holland America Line. The original records have been digitized and volunteers are now entering names […]
One of the most frequently asked questions I get from clients is: “Where in the Netherlands did my ancestors live?” This question is easy to answer if an address is mentioned in one of the records that are available for your Dutch family members. Most bigger cities in the Netherlands introduced addresses (street name plus […]
From the moment I began to explore the history of her family, my grandmother Martha Jansen née Snoeren invariably said every time I discussed a namesake with her, “Oh, but that’s not a member of our family.” She would say the same over and over again, even though I was able to show her quite […]