There’s something about old books with handwritten information in them that makes a genealogist’s ears prick up and take notice. Recently, an email came in to your “Roots & Branches” columnist from ...

Maeyken Wens was burned at the stake in Antwerp in 1573 for being baptized as an adult. Her story is told in "Martyrs Mirror," a 1660 Netherlands encyclopedia of Christian martyrs and a ...