In 1628, the Dutch West India Company captured a Spanish silver fleet off the shore of Cuba. A broadside by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652) celebrated the event, illustrating the battle and providing...

Your family’s past deserves to be walked through, not just filed away. Last week, I had the privilege of doing exactly that — not with a single client, but with a whole group of them at once. For five...

NNI Scholars’ Seminar The New Netherland Institute hosts a Zoom seminar where academics, public historians, and graduate students meet to discuss a piece of chapter-...

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In this fifth episode of Season Eleven, host Andrew Martin welcomes Australian genealogist and tech nerd - Andrew Redfern. Host Andrew hears how he got hooked on family history, his work on the Ironclad Sisterhood Project, and about his love for using AI in genealogy. The Life Story - William Millwood Bestwick Andrew has chosen to tell the story of…

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I came up with the phrase “migration streams” to replace “migration chains” a while back for two reasons. One, I felt it better conveyed what’s going on with these migrations and two, which was actual...