Over the past few weeks, I have been thoroughly reviewing the burial registers of Tilburg. Not because I was looking for additional information about my own family members, many of whom came from this city in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. No, I wanted to get to know these registers better. Burial registers are often Read more…
Every time I make a heritage trip with foreign clients, one of their questions is: “Can we visit the graves of our Dutch ancestors?” My answer is in many occasions painful. Old graves often no longer exist. Public and private graves According to Dutch law two types of graves exist: public graves and private graves. Read more…
We love those detectives in which the question rises: did the butler commit the murder, and why? And we love TV shows like Downton Abbey, in which we meet the family from upstairs and the staff who lives downstairs. Records that name the employees are valuable, both for genealogists who want to know more about Read more…