Who we are

Who we are and who i am
We are onsinheemsleven and we want to thank you for visiting our website.
My name is Debby Emmerig and i am the founder of this website because we believe in our mission to help to get back our identity and we want to help and that it stays for now and in the future in our Dutch indigenous life because we can't live without our identity our identity is our past. We have amazing story's and we had a verry interesting culture.
In 2016 i was beginning with my family tree and discover my old past of my ancestors they are the reason i am here on mother earth, i discover my identity and i am glad i found it is old living ways of my family, i am proud of what i discoverd abouth my bloodlines and then my passion for old things grow like how we lived in the past and how we honored our anxestors and how we can make a change to bring it back for 100%.
You see everywhere old things like wind, water and grane mills and you see boats in harbours and that is just the beginning of what i share on my website you can find more and go with me on a journey on this website.
" Important to share our Dutch indigenous culture to our people and the world, if we not teach abouth our identity and tell people abouth our identity we will lost our culture and identity because we have beautiful story's abouth our culture like life story's in the fishingmensongs on boats in the past and the people of all Dutch Shanty choirs over the whole Netherlands sing abouth their story's when they work on the water to fish, in the past whe where people of the water and part and our ancestors where fishing people, we have a rich history of this and my village Zandvoort my ancestors came from the fishing people and the people who lived in the nature reservations around the North Sea, i am proud i am part of the people of the sea and the nature reservations."
Debby Emmerig
Founder| onsinheemsleven
Why this website
Why we have this website is because we find it verry important to teach others abouth our culture and what we have in the past that made us until this day and what we stil have in our indigenous past and we want to bring it to this present time and future, we have rich story's and diffrent kinds of story's abouth our culture in the past and we know that people who comes to visit the Netherlands love our traditions like food and places, we have a lot of diffrent kinds of traditions like the wood windmills, we have traditional clothes and the Dutch clumbdance in traditional clothes, we have a rich history like the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie and we have in the past also the West Indische Compagnie but then you talk abouth the 1600 century. But we have more like the fishingpeople and a fishingvillage like our village who had back in time like the 1100 people who has it as job to fishing with the old boats on the sea, this was a way of life of my people in the past, my ancestors until this way of life ends in the 1926 al boats are gone until the year 1980 +/- it was a disaster for our people then came the Kotter boats but al the boats from my fishinvillage are gone now and that is why i tell the story's and share our story's of my people to keep the story's alive because it is verry important to teach abouth al the old indigenous ways of life from my people.
"Important to keep our Dutch indigenous story's alive like talk abouth the past of my people and other people to keep the story's alive, but we have a lot of story's we almost forget and are forgotten and you can stil hear them in songs like the fishingpeople like large group of people who calls the shantykoor they sing abouth our indigenous fishing past and what they do to servive on sea and sing story's to keep the story's of our Dutch identity alive, also they still talk abouth it how it is to be a fishermen on sea and what is happening there, i like to share a lot of things here on my website and all social media platforms."
Debby Emmerig