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Finishing off Boxing Day and reporting that Christmas Day was 100% traditional for me and I suspect that the atmosphere would not have been unfamiliar to the Jones Family. 

Held, as ever (except that last year 3 out of the 4 of us, were in the U.K. and the year before that, I was in the Netherlands) in the home where we've celebrated Christmas since 1981, divorce notwithstanding. 

The mixture of guests, reminds me of the "mixture" present at Malcolm's birthday party and Nell's…

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I HAD been told but, although it feels like I'm standing still, on the other hand, I may have too many fingernails in too many Dutch-Australian "pies" (stroopwafels?). 

At the last minute, before attending yesterday's bi-monthly meet-up of the Dutch Australian Genealogy Group, I decided to leave my video and still cameras, at home. 

I was really proud that I resisted the temptation to take them, because as someone at the meet-up confirmed, I'm rarely seen without…

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So pleased to have actually "half a dozen" Dutch-Australians show-case their works, at the Holland Festival, Rembrandt Club, Dunheved Circuit, St Marys, last weekend of March!



Not only Nell Jones (The Lost Sister of Groningen.)

but also:



Johanna van Rooy (Anah's War).

John Mulders ( 1606 and 1770 A Tale of Two Discoveries- video)

Yvonne Louis ( A Brush with Mondrian)

Charles Verheyden (Talking with Animals)

Bill Fikkers (Dutchies in the… Continue

I have "fixed up" some of the 'automatic' translation of the article:



"Boek over Gronings oorlogskind dat emigreerde" ("Book about the war-child from Groningen, that migrated.")



Published : 20 September 2010 - 7:00 am, by Wendy Braanker, of Radio Netherlands.



It is a story that had to be told. Nell Jones wrote a book about the difficult childhood of her mother. In the Netherlands Anneke Suiding was left to her fate. After her emigration to Australia, she was… Continue