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Berend Kronenberg’s American descendants

There are quite a few websites that give us insight into what happened on a specific day 100 years ago, for example. On Twitter, the hashtag #OTD (short for On This Day) shows dozens of tweets with news from the past. One event is certainly not listed: the death of Berend Kronenberg in Streukel, in Read more…

Posted on February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
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A journey to the west – part 2

Last week we described the first part of Jack Snoeren’s life story. As a young boy, he moved with his parents from the Netherlands to Belgium. There he met Mary, whom he married in 1907. They lived in Antwerp and London. The two had bigger plans, they wanted to go further to the west… the Read more…

Posted on October 26, 2020October 27, 2020 Author John Boeren Comment(0)
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Jan Herm Kalmer’s trip to Illinois

In the middle of the 19th century many families from the Dutch province of Overijssel emigrated to the United States. One of them was Jan Herm Kalmer. He and his whole family left the Netherlands because of their religious background. Translation Today, 25 April 1831, appeared before the civil registrar of the municipality of Ambt Read more…

Posted on August 12, 2020August 17, 2020 Author John Boeren Comment(0)

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