Thread:CorgiMom/@comment-31632130-20170206183831/@comment-29989042-20170209012514

I hope you had a nice evening too! 😉

I mostly read birth, marriage, and death records and civil registration records that are 100+ years old. I can make it through the records fairly easily and quickly, if handwriting is legible. I read number words, occupations, dates, years, gender, relationship words (father, mother, daughter, etc), given name, surname... I'd love to learn enough Dutch to actually read a book in Dutch!

When I visited, I stayed mostly in Amsterdam, where I had some family then, and farther back into the past. I LOVED the city, and we had nice weather while we were there (July). My grandmother's family came from Vlissingnen, so I do a lot of research there. I have several items in my house that came from Vlissingen, passed down to me after my grandmother died. One is a delft vase about 2 ft high. It's over 100 years old, and came to the US on the ship with my great-grandparents. It survived that trip, survived many years in Ohio, where they settled, and then came west to southern California (where I was born and raised) where they moved in the early 1950s. There it survived grandkids, great-grandkids, and earthquakes. It finally came to me in Oregon in 2012.

I also have family from Dordrecht, Gelderland, Utrecht, and Groningen. There are more places, but the numbers of ancestors is smaller. Are you near any of those places? 🐾🐾