This is an overview of the new sources, projects, and other news announced this past month.
Sources
- 57 newspapers (almost 155,000 issues) have been added to Delpher, where they can be searched full-text. This includes several local and regional papers, including for Utrecht, Groningen, Zwolle, and Breda. You can search in the latest additions.
- The Streekarchief Midden-Holland, the archives for the region around Gouda, have digitized several cemetery registers. Municipalities were required to create cemeteries after burying in churches and in the built-up part of time was prohibited in 1829. The scans are available at the archives’ website.
- Drenthe bankruptcy files 1870-1929 and criminal and civil verdicts 1838-1929 have been digitized and can be browsed at the website of the Drents Archief. Go to the Onderzoeken [Research] section of the Drents Archief website and search for record groups [“toegangsnummers”] 0106 and 0107 to go to the finding aid for the Assen District Court.
- Birth, marriage, and death records of several towns in North Brabant that have become public in recent years are now available at the Brabant Historisch Informatie Centrum website.
Breda in 1932. Credits: Topotijdreis (public domain)
Projects
- Family Cards 1917-1939 of Zuilen, part of the population register, have been digitized and are now being indexed. Volunteers can now report to Het Volk.
- More than 10 million scans have been produced of the records of the Central Archives of Central Jurisdiction. This record group contains 3.8 kilometers (2.2 miles) of records about almost half a million people who were investigated for collaburation during World War II. The records will become public in 2025. The National Archives is digitizing the records to make them available online. [Source: Nationaal Archief]
- Collectie Overijssel, the archives in Zwolle, is planning to digitize their own collections about tracing collaborators in World War II. [Source: Collectie Overijssel].
Suspected collaborators, including two young girls who had their hair shorn off for having relations with Germans, arrested during the liberation of Deventer on 11 April 1945. Credits: Willem van de Poll, Nationaal Archief (CC-0)
Archives
- The reading room of the Groningen Archieven has been renewed. You can now visit without a prior reservation.
- The website of the National Archives of Suriname has been offline since 22 July 2024. They are working on getting it back online but it is unknown how long this will take. [Source: Nationaal Archief Suriname Facebook]
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