Your family’s past deserves to be walked through, not just filed away. Last week, I had the privilege of doing exactly that — not with a single client, but with a whole group of them at once. For five intensive days, I helped guide a heritage travel group from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Read more…
On this day exactly 400 years ago – 22 March 1621 – a man fled from his imprisonment in Loevestein Castle. His name was Hugo de Groot or Hugo Grotius, one of the greatest legal scholars of all time. His escape became world famous: he hid in a book chest and was smuggled out of Read more…
In the last few months we have received requests from clients in Australia, Canada and the United States who were looking for more information about their Dutch grandparents. Each of them had a very specific reason why they did not know much (or even anything) about their ‘oma’ or ‘opa’. Let us take a look Read more…