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…
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…
Merchants often travel. They can have their domicile (official dwelling places) in one town, but stay in another place for a longer or shorter time. What if… in the meantime one of their children dies? Where can you find that death record? Today’s document answers this question. Translation On 23 July 1870, the civil registrar Read more…