Judy Russell – aka The Legal Genealogist – recently wrote a blog post about the “push-pull questions of family history”. In this post she asks herself why Ida Agnes (Geissler) Oettel stayed in Germany. Many of her siblings emigrated to the United States. So, why did she not?This blog post made me realize that many Read more…
Anne Frank is without doubt a person that appeals to the imagine of many. Everybody knows the story of the 13/14 year old Jewish girl who has to hide for the Germans. She writes in her diary letters to an imaginary friend. After two years in a secret annex of her father’s business in Amsterdam, Read more…
Have you watched season 8, episode 1 of the TV show Finding Your Roots? In this episode the actress Rebecca Hall was one of the guests. If you did not see it then here is a preview. What the show did not mention is that Rebecca has a Dutch grandmother! If you did watch, you Read more…