A few days ago, fellow Dutch researcher Luuk Keunen told me that he had finished his study of the Grade-Pulham family, an artist family with German and English roots. The results of years of research are now available on academia.edu. Summary Here is a translation of a few paragraphs that Luuk wrote as a summery. Read more…
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I about Y
Judy Russell – aka The Legal Genealogist – recently wrote a blog post about the “push-pull questions of family history”. In this post she asks herself why Ida Agnes (Geissler) Oettel stayed in Germany. Many of her siblings emigrated to the United States. So, why did she not?This blog post made me realize that many Read more…
Valkenburg and its family
A while ago I was a speaker at the annual reunion of the Van Valkenburg family. Members of this family – with branches in the United States and in Canada – have united in The National Association of the Van Valkenburg Family. This association started in 1970 and has since organized many activities for its Read more…