I remember very well that in Drachten we did not yet have running water, but we had a pump. A copper pump inside and a big wooden pump outside. You had to swing the handle back and forth and then the water appeared. That was real water, right out of …
According to family lore, Rose Goldman was married twice, the second time to a Samuel Edelman. The children of her first marriage took the last name of the second husband. My son-in-law descends from the second marriage with Samuel. Half siblings were known to be Ida, Louis, and Abraham. The …
The family of August Seidler was a bit of a mystery. I knew he was married twice, but had no hard data on him. In 1900 he was living with his mother Amalia and two sisters, and he was listed as widowed, but no children were listed as living with them. …
I came across an interesting database: Europeana. It is a cooperative venture of a number of European institutions such as libraries and archives, in languages from English to Swedish, and about 25 others in between. Most items are freely available, I received one 403 error (Access denied) I tried it …
