Simon Schama wrote, "Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot."
Family historians can identify with those words. We will be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner. But that does not mean we will stop the pursuit.
With this branch of my family, I'm crossing the Atlantic Ocean to a land where people live in a "perpetual present participle." (Simon Schama) My branch of the Rozendals came from Het Bildt, Friesland, The Netherlands. They were in Leavenworth, Kansas by the 1880 United States Census. This is my continuing study of the Rozendals, my maternal grandmother's mother and her family. Again, like my other blogs, it is scattershot in its presentation.
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