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Family of Hugo de Groot

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…

Posted on March 22, 2021March 21, 2021 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
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Looking for Dutch grandparents

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…

Posted on March 13, 2021March 13, 2021 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
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Berend Kronenberg’s American descendants

There are quite a few websites that give us insight into what happened on a specific day 100 years ago, for example. On Twitter, the hashtag #OTD (short for On This Day) shows dozens of tweets with news from the past. One event is certainly not listed: the death of Berend Kronenberg in Streukel, in Read more…

Posted on February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Author John Boeren Comment(0)

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