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 […]
Many of us have just recovered from three days of RootsTech London and we already start to think about the following RootsTech event. For the last nine years RootsTech was organized in Salt Lake City. What once started as a small event combining genealogy and IT has developed into the biggest genealogical event in the […]