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 […]
As a young boy I would spend a couple of weekends per year at my grandparents’. There was one thing in their house that fascinated me greatly: a brown envelope, containing pictures, postcards and some other documents from the time my grandfather was in Germany. He never said much about it. When my grandparents both […]