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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…

Posted on February 20, 2022February 20, 2022 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
Painting of Damrak and surrounding streets in Amsterdam, in 1870.
Methodology Spotlight

Burial entry for Eva van Santen

Nowadays, everybody can start researching his or her family history. A lot of information is published on the internet. In the Netherlands, the most frequently used sources are digitized and freely available. Indexes and databases are a big help. Nevertheless, one of the most prominent methodological priciples is: always check the original source. To demonstrate Read more…

Posted on July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
Methodology

Ancestors in ‘cijnsregisters’

Yesterday I was talking with some members of the historical society in Loon op Zand, a small village in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. The five of us come together on a frequent basis to talk about our research, to look for new topics for articles or just to discuss interesting developments in the historical Read more…

Posted on February 13, 2016October 28, 2020 Author John Boeren Comment(0)

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