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Van Gogh DNA

Dutch regional newspapers had a scoop today (24 December 2022): research has solved the mystery whether Vincent van Gogh was the father of the child that one of his models had in 1885. Y-DNA gave the final answer after 137 years: no, he was not. Brabant Vincent van Gogh spent his early years in Noord-Brabant. Read more…

Header of the baptismal register of Sneek, saying: "Names of the children, baptized in the Reformed Church in Sneek, anno 1578."

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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…

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Van Gogh DNA

The posthumous birth of Harmen Boelens

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