Cora was born in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, New York on 4 March 1877 and died in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York on 24 July 1945. Her entire life was spent in these two counties. She never married, and was a working woman her entire life. For years (from …
Sophia Lichtenstein (Dutch link) was born on 10 May 1904 in Jülich. She married her first husband Max Baum there on 1 Feb 1935. For a while they lived in Linnich (Kirchstr. 12), but in 1938 they moved to Doenrade in the Netherlands. There they lived at Kerkstraat 74. The house had …
In 1847 Johan and Thomas ten Bruggencate went from Holland to the US (see a previous post) on the fregat ‘Doggersbank.’ A few years ago, I had located the ship’s journal in the online catalogue Maritiem Digitaal, and found that it is located in the Amsterdam Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaart Museum), but …
Family legend had it that great-grandfather Marinus J. Broekman (dutch link) had a fabric store. However, in the database of the Dutch Economic-Historical Archives I found the following in the catalog of the Special Collections, Documentation and pictures of trades C. Wood and Furniture. c. Mar. J. Broekman, furniture and rugs, …
Maps are a wonderful resource, they help you visualize the surroundings of your ancestors and their journeys. For the Netherlands there are two very interesting sites: Watwaswaar.nl (what was where) and HISGIS.nl (Historical Geografic Information System). Both are interactive sites with maps of the Netherlands. Neither has an English interface, but watwaswaar has …
Almelo, the town my father’s family came from is still a small town, and certainly it was in the 18th and 19th …
While quite a few of the American side of my grand kids ancestors served in the Civil War, one of their Dutch …
I decided to try to get an overview of where the lacunae in my grand-kids genealogy are. So I printed a 12 …
Gerrit Hendrik Broekman (dutch link) came from Melle in Germany to Amsterdam before 1786. In that year he marries Maria Bruijn. At his …
Caecilia Mayer (dutch link) was the seventh of ten children, four boys and six girls. She was born in 1880 in Schifferstadt, Germany, …
