We had such a good time celebrating our 5 Year Anniversary! Four weeks in a row we looked back at our first five years. Topics were education, events and collaboration. Other articles described projects we worked on in 2015/16, 2017 and 2018/19. Each week we published two articles and each article included one or more […]
On July 20, 1946 two siblings from Tilburg, the Netherlands, both in their twenties, boarded the M.S. Noordam in Rotterdam. One week later Jan Franken and his sister Annemie arrived in New York. After a flight to Milwaukee they were welcomed by their friend John Coleman, whom they first met during the war. Jan and […]
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 […]