Have you watched season 8, episode 1 of the TV show Finding Your Roots? In this episode the actress Rebecca Hall was one of the guests. If you did not see it then here is a preview. What the show did not mention is that Rebecca has a Dutch grandmother! If you did watch, you Read more…
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…
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…