The decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) were the start of a formal and structural registration of life events in the Roman Catholic Church. Soon after, the Dutch Reformed Church and other denominations started recording births, marriages and deaths too. Other – and sometimes older – documents might also refer to life events, for Read more…
Last week we described the first part of Jack Snoeren’s life story. As a young boy, he moved with his parents from the Netherlands to Belgium. There he met Mary, whom he married in 1907. They lived in Antwerp and London. The two had bigger plans, they wanted to go further to the west… the Read more…
October is history month. Some countries – like the United Kingdom – focus on black history, other countries – like Canada – on women’s history. In the Netherlands, we celebrate history month each year with a different theme. The 2020 theme is: east-west. Multiple interpretations of this theme are possible, and that is exactly the Read more…