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Janet
Sjaarda Sheeres Janet Sjaarda Sheeres, former educator at Calvin College, Michigan, has strong ancestral ties with Friesland and writes about Dutch church history. |
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Anne
Wiegers van der Woude The first Mormon missionary in The Netherlands was a Frisian named: Anne Wiegers van der Woude, who headed back to The Netherlands in the spring of 1861. |
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From
the Dikes to the Desert The First Dutch Mormons in Utah in the last half of the 1800s. Emigration brought many Dutch saints from the land of the dikes to the desert valley. |
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Son
of Secession: Douwe J. Vander Werp A biography of Douwe Vander Werp, one of the key figures in the Netherlands Afscheiding of 1834 and a principal minister of the Christian Reformed Church. |
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My
Search for Sjaardas My family name, Sjaarda, is hardly a household word in this country. Nor is it common in the country of its origin-the Netherlands, where I was born in 1940. |
