One of the questions I often get from clients outside the Netherlands, is: “can you find records that tell when my family left Holland?” Recently, a new source has become available to answer that question: the passenger lists of the Holland America Line. The original records have been digitized and volunteers are now entering names Read more…
Many of us have just recovered from three days of RootsTech London and we already start to think about the following RootsTech event. For the last nine years RootsTech was organized in Salt Lake City. What once started as a small event combining genealogy and IT has developed into the biggest genealogical event in the Read more…
Today I am sitting in a holiday house near the sea. It is raining cats and dogs. Not the best time to go out with the dog and walk in the dunes. Maybe later today. Instead I look back on my genealogy adventures from last week. I was in London (UK) for five days, attending Read more…