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…
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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…
#5YearAntecedentia – The Winners
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 Read more…



