On Thursday Radburn entertained a remarkable visitor, 99 yr old Robert E. Simon, the man who envisioned Reston, VA. Like Radburn, Reston is a planned community, but build in 1961. Like Radburn, it is a community of mixed housing and business, and pedestrian safe neighborhoods. Unlike Radburn, it houses 60.000 …
Just read a post about the life as an expat, and some of it rang a bell for me. I came to the US for my husband’s education, so we were expats then. By the time the kids came along, we were immigrants, so would that make me a lifer …
For me as an immigrant to the US, the fact of researching my grandchildren’s ancestors has given me an insight in US history, that I would not have had otherwise. My database contains Mayflower passengers, immigrants to New Amsterdam, Revolutionary War soldiers, Civil War Soldiers, people fleeing from prosecution, and economic …
Here is the second letter, this one on the occasion of Afina‘s (dutch link) birthday. Nieuwe Pekela, Dec 1918 Dear Son and Daughter, Today we are reminded of your birthday, Afina, hoping you will pass that day in health, we stand before a new year, hoping that we will be …
On 28 May 1791 Gerrit ten Bruggencate (dutch link) and his wife Johanna Boom, appear before the court in Almelo to ask permission to postpone the decision of what to do with the inheritance of their son Jan. They state: That they had just received a letter from Demararij, written …
In 1918 my grandparents Ulpen (dutch link) and Afina de Haan had moved from Groningen to Limburg, a very long distance in those …
Isaac ten Bruggenkate (dutch link) and Herman ten Bruggencate (dutch link) were grain merchants. On 5 June 1747 they went to the steward of …
