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Berend Kronenberg’s American descendants

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…

Posted on February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
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Jozef Frans Boeren’s funeral notice

Today, we are looking at the funeral notice for Jozef Frans Boeren, who died in 1947. This kind of death announcement sometimes looks like a card, but often more like a letter. It is not only the announcement of the person’s death, but also an invitation to attend the funeral. Translation The text starts with Read more…

Posted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
Photograph of one of the LP's with family recordings, speech of Jeannie and Paul, 1954.
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Family Recordings from the 1950s

Last week a friend of mine tagged me in a Facebook post. Simone Oosterwijk from Woensdrecht in the Netherlands, needed help and my friend thought I was THE person to jump in. So, why did Simone need help? Thrift shop A while ago she found a round, flat iron tin in a small thrift shop. Read more…

Posted on June 18, 2020June 30, 2020 Author John Boeren Comment(0)

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