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From the lens Emigration from The Netherlands.

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  • Mujjen Mar 2, 2011 @ 7:38 am | delete
    Didn't know there were so many Canadians still speaking Dutch! Nice historical reading!
  • Rafick Feb 15, 2011 @ 9:56 am | delete
    And Maurice de Nassau visited mauritius, but I met Dutch people only out of the island.
  • traveller27 Feb 6, 2011 @ 3:42 pm | delete
    No, no Dutch roots...but I enjoyed your lens!
  • prosperity66 Jan 26, 2011 @ 3:50 am | delete
    From what I've read in your lens, I certainly have family in many places of the world! And not just from one branch of my family but from all branches as my family emigrated to Dutch Indies in the late 1800s and came back 40 years later - but surely they had children in this area that they didn't bring with them.

    I also know to persons who were from different origins: one from Belgian Ardennes, another one from the Netherlands; neither of them would leave their loving country, therefore, after they got married, they settled on the borderline between Belgium and the Netherlands and got children who loved both countries.

    Other than that, all family members I'm aware of aren't emigrant and love their country too much ;)
  • rwoman Nov 11, 2010 @ 9:12 am | delete
    My vague understanding of my own family's immigration to Upstate NY (http://www.squidoo.com/14589/-knows-14589) was that a number of German farmers brought over Dutch indentured servants to work their farms. Interestingly, a number of those farmers were not reformers but were Catholic (so it wasn't about religion just economics). My great-uncle researched our family and my memory is that my ancestors came over to evade the draft or for a chance to be a landowner.
  • KarenTBTEN Oct 26, 2010 @ 8:00 pm | delete
    A well done piece of history. SquidAngel blessings.
  • ajgodinho Oct 24, 2010 @ 11:59 am | delete
    This is an interesting lens on Dutch emigration. I'm not Dutch, but emigrated to Canada over a decade ago. I've had a chance to help many Canadian immigrants and it's been a blessing. **Blessed by a Squid-Angel**
  • alice deregt Dec 18, 2009 @ 6:01 pm | delete
    aaltje van den berg deregt came to canada in1952 was 10 on the ship called the zuide kruis with my mother and thre brothers and one sister one sister stayed in holland have family that went to the u s a in about 1800in michigan grand rapids
  • spirituality Nov 23, 2009 @ 2:42 am | delete
    Great lens, but you knew that :) Just wanted to remind you that this is featured on the The Netherlands Headquarters
    http://www.squidoo.com/groups/Netherlands

    It's now transformed into a lensography and I would love it if you could show your appreciation by featuring it here, or lensrolling it or something.
  • Henk Nov 24, 2009 @ 11:45 pm | delete
    Thanks for featuring me. The Netherlands Headquarters is on the lens roll.
  • spirituality Nov 23, 2009 @ 2:35 am | delete
    Great lens, but you knew that :) Just wanted to remind you that this is featured on the The Netherlands Headquarters
    http://www.squidoo.com/groups/Netherlands

    It's now transformed into a lensography and I would love it if you could show your appreciation by featuring it here, or lensrolling it or something.
  • Nancy S. Oct 13, 2009 @ 11:45 pm | delete
    I have really enjoyed your site. It has been very helpful. I am trying to trace my Dutch ancestry and although the naming pattern gets me confused, it has also helped me locate and prove some lines. One particular line I am working on is really hard as it is from Amsterdam and though I can't prove my theory yet, your information on the naming patterns has helped strengthen my arguement that I am on the right track. Thanks again.
    Keep up the good work.
  • m.younas Apr 23, 2009 @ 2:06 pm | delete
    hi yes i want emigration to holland
  • NanLT Apr 9, 2009 @ 12:17 pm | delete
    Very interesting - the Dutch branch of my maternal grandfather's line emigrated from from Harlingen, Friedland, Netherlands in the mid 1600s and settled in New Harlem, New Netherlands. They settled in and married into a Hueganot family. This is renewing an interest in why they chose to emigrate at that time.
  • Robin_Forlonge_Patterson Apr 8, 2009 @ 10:30 am | delete
    New Zealand also welcomed thousands of Dutch in the 1950s. I'm pleased that one became my daughter's father-in-law. A little online research took me to a second-cousin of his, who had not emigrated and whose existence the New Zealand family were unaware of. They are now in touch.

    Another immigrant from The Netherlands had become my daughter's grandfather 30-odd years ago. My wife and I (99% British in ancestry) adopted her at birth, and now we've "given her back" to a half-Dutch family. Her baby due in October will be three-eighths Dutch by blood and may well be tempted to learn the language.

    My most recent contact with Dutch is with two of the keenest contributors to the Genealogy Wikia. Both have a very good command of English but use Dutch when talking together and are concentrating on The Netherlands and its people and making the site easily usable by other Dutch.
  • Willem De Vries Mar 19, 2009 @ 9:34 pm | delete
    I immigrated into Canada in l951 at the age of 18 and encourage you to keep expanding your website. I also encourage your readers who can read Dutch to read the book called "Landverhuizers" which gives a very good account of the 1846 and subsequent story of people immigrating into Michigan. My understanding is that the book( which is a Triology)
    was substantially written during the 2nd world war from information available in the Theological Library in Kampen, the Netherlands as there had been close contact kept by the Reformed people on both sides of the ocean. 1953
    Picked up another book both in English and Dutch called Dutch Immigrant Memoirs and Related Writings, by Henry S Lucas, also writting in the Netherlands and published in the early 1950's
    Then the other day I read Dr Schuller's memoirs published in 2000 in which I find such a similarity
    to our own upbringing as his parents lived in Iowa near Pella and of the third generation Dutch still spoke Dutch together at home
  • spirituality Feb 1, 2009 @ 12:32 pm | delete
    Interesting lens. Perhaps you want to join the Netherlands Headquarters group on squidoo?

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