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 …
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 …
For me as an immigrant to the US, the fact of researching my grandchildren’s ancestors has given me an insight in US …
Here is the second letter, this one on the occasion of Afina‘s (dutch link) birthday. Nieuwe Pekela, Dec 1918 Dear Son and …
On 28 May 1791 Gerrit ten Bruggencate (dutch link) and his wife Johanna Boom, appear before the court in Almelo to ask …
In 1918 my grandparents Ulpen (dutch link) and Afina de Haan had moved from Groningen to Limburg, a very long distance in those …
