Today, we are looking at the baptismal entry of Maria Helena Matthei (1765). Translation 22nd [April 1765] is born and baptized Maria Helena, legitimate daughter of Sir Josephus Gerardus Matthei, Her Imperial and Royal Majesty’s Post Official, and Madam Anna Elisabetha Crans, spouses. Sir Leonardus Cox and Madam Maria Helena van Kuck widow of Schepes, Read more…
Sunday morning, 10.30am. When I arrive at Utrecht Central Station, the DeGroot family (of Wyoming, United States) is already waiting for me. They took that morning the train from Amsterdam to Utrecht, ready for their heritage trip. A week before I sent them an itinerary: I had planned visits to Goudriaan, Noordeloos, Achthoven and Lexmond. Read more…
Linda Van Drunen Crawford from Austin, Texas wrote me this February. She found information about her paternal line before, all the way back to the 1750s, and had plans to come to the Netherlands at the end of April and the beginning of May. She really wanted to visit the area where her ancestors once Read more…