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Royal Records

This week we celebrate two happy moments for the royal family. On 31 January the birthday of Princess Beatrix. In addition, on 2 February the 20th wedding anniversary of King Willem Alexander and Queen Máxima. Records for both events are not public yet. As a result, we cannot have a look at these birth or Read more…

Posted on January 29, 2022February 1, 2023 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
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Young men honor St. Bridget

We spent a few days in one of the most southern town of the Netherlands, Noorbeek in the province of Limburg. Every year young men in this town honor Saint Brigida with a special pine tree. Perhaps Simon Deneij was one of them. Transcription and translation 28 7bris bap[tizatus est] Simon fil[ius] leg[itimus] Petri Deneij Read more…

Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
Header of the baptismal register of Sneek, saying: "Names of the children, baptized in the Reformed Church in Sneek, anno 1578."
Methodology Spotlight

The posthumous birth of Harmen Boelens

According to Wikipedia, a posthumous birth is a “birth of a child after the death of a biological parent.” For obvious reasons, it is much more common that a father died before the birth of a child. In a rare occasion the death involved the mother. Today, we are looking at the posthumous birth of Read more…

Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 Author John Boeren Comment(1)

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