Etiket: ancestors
TUI apologizes for Suriname trip to follow ‘brave ancestors’
Travel company TUI apologizes with shame for a description of a tour through Suriname, in which Dutch holidaymakers can step into the shoes of ‘our brave ancestors’. The travel provider…
TUI apologizes for Suriname trip to follow ‘brave ancestors’
Travel company TUI apologizes with shame for a description of a tour through Suriname, in which Dutch holidaymakers can step into the shoes of ‘our brave ancestors’. The travel provider…
Search for ancestors: ‘By pure coincidence I discovered the cause of death’
During his volunteer work for the Drenthe Archives, reading and writing down names from documents from the Society of Benevolence, Theo Zelders suddenly came across the obituary of his ancestor.…
A Grammy winner, a lecture about the ancestors of birds and shockingly out of tune music. This and more this week in Groningen and Drenthe
This week, Grammy winner Mike Farris is coming to Hoogezand and there will be several lectures in Groningen and Drenthe. Furthermore, the story of Sonny Boy is told and the…
Search for ancestors: ‘Marriage is better than a frivolous life’
“I found it very interesting to see where you come from. Because you come from a lot of different families. It’s nice to know what their history has been.” On…
Search for ancestors: ‘Was he the black sheep of the family?’
After extensive family research, Age Bakker has acquired a good impression of Cornelis: “He was perhaps a bit of a simple soul, a bit simple. Blushing, with curls. That’s how…
Human ancestors could have gone extinct 800,000 years ago
The population of our ancestors may have suffered a serious moment of decline at the beginning and middle of the Pleistocene, with a drastic decrease in reproductive individuals, of which…
Cynthia McLeod: You don’t please your ancestors by wailing and crying!
Master Storyteller. Moral compass. Living legend. Cynthia McLeod (86), author of How expensive was the sugar, is it all. On Keti Koti a conversation with the woman who broke the…
History Tugunes and search for ancestors chronicled: ‘Nobody knows that we exist’
It is not surprising that nobody knows about the Toegoe community. Modesty adorns man, but this virtue certainly applies to the Tugunese, many of whom live in Hoogeveen. This population…
Our ancestors may have had a 30,000-year ‘stopover’ on the Arabian Peninsula as they moved from Africa to Eurasia
Modern humans originate from Africa, the continent where they lived more than 200,000 years ago. From there, our ancestors spread to the rest of the world, some 60,000 to 50,000…