These animations are everything!

March 6, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Today I saw a newspaper article about the MyHeritage app Deep Nostalgia. It’s an app that animates faces from (old) photographs. The animations I saw were so realistic, and I knew immediately that I needed to try it. And when I tell you I was not disappointed! I started with a photograph of my maternal […]

What’s in a name?

December 13, 2020.Reading time 18 minutes.

Even though a lot of historical records have been digitized, researching your Surinamese family history can still be tricky at times. For instance, the enslaved Africans in Suriname only received a family name upon manumission or emancipation. This makes digging through the slave registries still a very tricky process. You constantly have to check and […]

Letter to Cecilia

August 19, 2020.Reading time 17 minutes.

Dear Cecilia, I will start off by saying that compared to the other letters I’ve written, this letter has been the hardest so far. I’ve started a couple of times but then stopped to post other things, which is something I normally don’t do. I may even end up drastically editing the post after I’ve […]