Lectures

The abstracts of genealogy can be found at genealogy.
The abstracts of heraldry can be found at heraldry.

After the advise of the Scientific Committee, the following lectures are selected for the Congress

Introduction
Dr. Régis de la Haye (Maastricht, NL)
Pays sans frontières: Maastricht, Liège, Aachen

Genealogy
Prof.dr. Annelies van Bronswijk (Eindhoven, NL)
Twelve Generations of Active Female Aging

Leticia Darna de Vilarrubias (Sp)
Héraldique et généalogie de certains émigrants espagnols et se sont installés dans le Pays Bas

Baudouin D'hoore (Brussel, Be)
Les archives de la famille de Merode: mémoire d’une Maison de dimension européenne

Dr. Michel Doortmont (Groningen, NL)
The Globalisation of Family History: Changing Perspectives on Genealogical Relations Between the Netherlands and its Former Colonies

Dr. Bruce Durie (Sco)
Untangling the Durie/DuRy Families of Scotland, Netherlands, France and New Jersey

Vincent Evers (Heythuysen, NL)
Ancestors in the Dutch Military before Napoleon

Daniel Horowitz (Kfar Saba, Isr)
The Ultimate Super Search Machine: how to find your Relative on Internet without really searching

Dick Kaas (NL)
Computergenealogy in 2020

Prof.dr. Kees Mandemakers (Amsterdam, NL)
Linking Genealogical Data into Pedigrees and Families with LINKS

Wim Penninx (NL)
Genetic Variation in the Netherlands in the Last 2000 Years

Hugh Peskett (Winchester, GB)
Evaluation of Traditional Celtic Genealogies

Peter Prevos (Aus)
Kinship Boundaries in a Southern Dutch Village in 1796 [Heugem]

David A. Rencher (Salt Lake City, USA)
The Role of FamilySearch in a Worldwide Community

Mary Risseeuw (USA), Yvette Hoitink (NL)
Emigration from the Netherlands (to the USA) in the Nineteenth Century

Sabine Schleichert (D)
Trying to match Y-DNA and History: a Case Study

Dr. Tanneke Schoonheim (Leiden, NL)
Contemporary Surnames in Leiden and their History

Prof.Dr. Igor Sakharov (St. Petersburg, Rus), Svetlana Shelyapina (St. Petersburg, Rus)
Immigrants from Holland and their Russian Descendants: the Question of Mixed Marriages Marriages and Assimilation into an Alien Ethnic Milieu (as exemplified in St. Petersburg)

Dr. Nathaniel Lane Taylor (USA)
Memory, Identity, and Genealogy on the Iberian Frontier: the Earliest European Genealogies and Nobiliaries

Michel Teillard d'Eyry (Fr)
Des frontières très discutées et très disputées, le cas de la Moldavie entre Roumanie et Russie

Marc Tremblay (Can)
Frontières régionales et ancienneté territoriale: une analyse généalogique

Prof.Dr. Jürgen Udolph (D)
Sprachwissenschaftliche Bemerkungen zur Herkunft und Bedeutung unserer Familiennamen

Dr. Valerie Vermassen (Hillegem, Be)
Genealogical Research and the Historical Immigration in Flanders

René van Weeren (Utrecht, NL)
United we stand - the Benefits of Cooperation between Genealogists and other Researchers

Dr. Martine Zoeteman-van Pelt (Leiden, NL)
Students and their "Grand Tour" to the Netherlands

Heraldry
Ronny Andersen (Kopenhagen, DK)
Borderline Heraldry; the Lions of Schleswig and their Impact on Regional Identity

Dr. Stoyan H. Antonov (Plovdiv, Bul)
On the Boundaries of Heraldic Realm: the Bulgaria Case

David B. Appleton (Duncanville, USA)
Heraldry on the Digital Frontier

Cand.phil. Nils Bartholdy (Frederiksberg, DK)
Heraldik und Grenzmark. Wappen als Propaganda im dänisch-schwedischen Streit

Franco Benucci (Padua, It)
l’Héraldique au-delà des frontières. Amoiries d’étudiants Européens à Padoue et à Bologne à l’âge moderne

Jos van den Borne (Oegstgeest, NL)
A Gateway to Nobility? Civil Coats of Arms in the Armorials of the Supreme Council of Nobility

Dr. Claire Boudreau (Can), Robert D. Watt (Can)
Towards the Frontiers of Heraldic Respectability; Inclusive emblems and political correctness in heraldic symbols today

Prof. D'Arcy Boulton (USA)
The Heraldic Emblematics of the Provinces of British North America and their Successors since the Partition of 1776/83: A Study in Contrasts

Wilhelm Brummer (Helsinki, Fin)
Change in Frontiers, Change in Heraldic Practice - The Ennoblement in Finland under the Swedish and Russian Rule 1420-1912

Dubravka Čaldarović (Zagreb, Kro)
Heraldry at the Edge of Science: Thesis about the Meaning of the Croatian chequy Shield

Steen Clemmensen (Farum, DK)
The Proverbial Banner - an Axiom Revisited; a Reexamination of the Evidence of Early Heraldry pre 1200

Iwona Dacka-Górzyńska (Warschau, PL)
Le culte du blason dans la Pologne du XVII-XVIII siècle. Aux frontières de l'absurde

James Dempster (Elgin, Sco)
Nova Scotia, New Scotland and New Caledonia; Some Heraldic & Genealogical Aspects of Scotland's 17th Century American "Colonies"

Dr. Charles Drake (Savannah, Georgia, USA)
Magna Charta Heraldry

Dr. Paul A. Fox (Eng)
Kinship Networks: towards a New Understanding of the Origins of Heraldry

Ralf Hartemink (NL)
Early 20th century heraldic advertising and collector's items

Dr. Henrick Klackenberg (Stockholm, S)
Expanding Frontiers: Provincial Arms in the Kingdom of Sweden 1550-1700

Dr. Antti Matikkala (Helsinki, Fin)
From Swedish to Russian Service: Orders, Decorations and Medals on the Seals of the Finnish Nobility in the Nineteenth Century

Michael Y. Medvedev (Rus)
Imperial Russia's Inner Heraldic Borders

Prof.dr. Rolf Nagel (D)
Wappen überwinden Grenzen; Das Beispiel Geldern

Elizabeth Roads (Edinburgh, Sco)
Frontiers in Heraldry in Scotland

Marta Santos (Por)
The impact of the Portuguese Discoveries in Heraldry – New Frontiers in the XVth and XVIth Centuries

Dr. Rolf Sutter (Stuttgart, D)
Freimauerische Heraldik und Emblematik

Dr. Tudor-Ratu Tiron (Rum)
At the Border between Two Worlds. Hungarian and Polish Influences upon the Walachian and Moldavian Medieval Heraldry (14th-16th Centuries)

Tom S. Vadholm (No)
Kings of both Norway and Sweden; Political Facts and Problems expressed in their Coats of Arms

Norbert Waclawczyk (PL)
Problemstellung der polnischen, zeitgenössischen heraldischen Terminologie im Bezug zu europäischen heraldischen Standards


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