Category Archives: Genealogy Related Articles

Passenger lists from the Holland-America Line (HAL) at the Rotterdam City Archives

Between 1900 and 1969 millions of people traveled and emigrated with the ships of the Holland-America Line. The Holland-America Line (HAL), originally a Dutch transatlantic cruise company, offered full trips, but emigrants also made use of the HAL. Many Dutch … Continue reading

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Mini-expo at FelixArchief in Antwerp: “Foreigners in a foreign city”

The FelixArchief (the City Archives of Antwerp: https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be) announced in their recent newsletter from February, sent out via email, that the subject of the mini-expo which will run from February 12, 2019, until Friday, April 5, 2019, will be about … Continue reading

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Updated website for Antwerp City Archives (Felixarchief)

The city archives of Antwerp (known as Felixarchief) has updated its website. On their website you can read, among others, the following about the update: Thanks to the new search function you can find a relevant search result faster and … Continue reading

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Solving Cold Cases – An Attempt

I am currently in the middle of reading the book on my Kindle “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” by Michelle McNamara which tells the story about, what is, or better was, considered a cold case. The book tells the gripping … Continue reading

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Interview in Quarterly of the Flemish “Familiekunde Vlaanderen”

“Familiekunde Vlaanderen“, which is a Flemish genealogy organization, has published in their quarterly, “Vlaamse Stam“, an interview with me. They have kindly given me permission to republish it on my website, I hope that you’ll enjoy reading it (in Dutch): … Continue reading

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List of Jews living in Pre-War Charleroi

Vincent Vagman has recently published an important  list of Jews who have lived in Charleroi before the outbreak of WWII . Charleroi, which is in the Southern part of Belgium, is a very industrial city, which I’d not consider a … Continue reading

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My Magazine Subscriptions

As a Jew living in Antwerp, Belgium, and with an interest in Genealogy, I have some specific interests which are reflected somehow in my choice of magazine subscriptions. In this article I’d like to discuss the magazines I’m subscribed to (or … Continue reading

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Cheat Sheet: Getting the Alien Files from the Archives of Antwerp (and the districts of Antwerp)

In the article I’d like to post a very quick and short cheat sheet on how to get the alien files from the Archives of Antwerp. Check the end of this article in order to understand more about the districts … Continue reading

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About a certificate for land in Pre-State Israel

When my father in-law and his sisters recently cleared their mother´s home in Amsterdam after she has passed away, they came across a paper which seemed to look like a certificate with text in Dutch for land in, what was … Continue reading

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No ordinary clerks

Recently I went through the alien file from my great-grandfather Gerschon Lehrer, whom I am named after, which I found in the Belgian state archives. While analyzing the documents in the file, I came across some letters written between a … Continue reading

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