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52 Ancestors in 52 weeks challenge, week 2  Anyone researching ancestors from Amsterdam, Netherlands, will have found the fabulous Amsterdam Archives site, Stadsarchief Amsterdam - https://archief.amsterdam/ . At least I hope you have, because it is beautifully set up and very informative.  Here, in the Image archive, Beeldbank, I found many images of my great-grandfather, Jan Blomberg, who was the head teacher at a primary school in Amsterdam. Not only of him, but also of his eldest son, Johan, as a young boy. What's more, all these photos are in the public domain. The photographer was Jacob Olie (1834-1905) who was a carpenter and engineer and later a teacher at the first vocational school in Amsterdam. Photography was a hobby for him which he would only take up full-time in retirement. He recorded many scenes of Amsterdam life and surrounding country side which are now a valuable historical record of Amsterdam in the 1890's. Jan Blomberg, also a teacher, got to know him and

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