Dutch Genealogy News for November 2024

22 November 2024 by Leave a Comment

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects and other news announced in the past month.

Sources

  • Birth records 1903-1912 from Enkhuizen, Hoogkarspel, Schellinkhout, Venhuizen, Westwoud, and Wijdenes can now be found at the Westfries Archief.
  • The correspondence of Cristofforo Suriano, the first Venetian diplomat in the Dutch Republic in the early 1600s, is now available online.
  • A card catalog of missing persons in World War II has been digitized and is now available via the finding aid (call nos. 614-744). If you find a person of interest, you can look up their file by number in series A in the finding aid, and then order scans or consult the file in the reading room.
  • The Westfries Archief digitized a medieval Book of Hours that is now available online.
  • An index and images of the mill tax records of Aarlanderveen 1680 have been added to Genealogie Rijnland.
  • An index of Dutch Reformed baptisms (1782-1798) and marriages (1771-1795) of Gouda has been added to Genealogie Rijnland.
  • An index of notarial records of Woerden 1580-1664 has been dded to Archiefman (PDF).
  • Several transcriptions of church records from the island of Goerree-Overflakkee have been added to Cor Koene Genealogie.
  • Transcriptions of court records of Laren and Oolde in Gelderland have been added to Genealogiedomein.
  • The Waterlands Archief has made most of the family cards of the population register 1920-1939 of the Waterland region in Noord-Holland available online. These were taken offline a few years ago to protect the privacy of living people. By indexing the information, cards that only had people born before 1923 could be made public. This date will shift each year, until all cards are visible online.
  • Almost 100,000 scans of Limburg church records are now available via the finding aid.
  • Several notarial records from Maastricht (1544-1842) have been scanned and are now available via the finding aid.

Maastricht in 1572. Credits: Braun & Hogenberg (public domain)

Websites

  • Historisch Centrum Limburg has a new website. The historical center, formerly known as Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg, keeps the records for the province of Limburg and the municipalities of Maastricht and Heerlen. The website has three genealogical search engines, for persons in and around Heerlen, in and around Maastricht, and for their collection of Heerlen prayer cards.  You can also check the finding aids for Heerlen and Maastricht.
  • The website TilburgWO2 op de Kaart [Tilburg World War II on the Map] shows  places of interest in Tilburg during World War II, such as sites where rockets landed or where airplanes crashed. You can click on the icons to get more information about the event and casualties on the ground.
  • The website AlleDrenten, dedicated to genealogical information from Drente, will stop working on 1 December 2024.  All the information has been migrated to the website of the Drents Archief.

Projects

  • The WIC opvarenden project documents seafarers of the Dutch West India Company between 1621 and 1674. The WIC records for the period were mostly lost, but the project tries to reconstruct voyages and crews using Amsterdam notarial records. The resulting database will be published online. [Source: WIC Opvarenden]
  • The Roermond city archives is digitizing several Roermond town records from the period 1259-1796. [Source: Archief Roermond]
  • The University Library of Leiden will be donating 400,000 foreign dissertations to the Internet Archive. [Source: Internet Archive]
  • A large part of the records of the Court of Holland are being digitized. The Court of Holland was the court for the provinces of Holland and Zeeland, and the appellate court for the lower jurisdictions in these provinces. The scans will become available via the finding aid. [Source: Nationaal Archief]
  • Card catalogs of army service records for soldiers born between 1900 and 1920 are being digitized. The scans will become available via the finding aid. [Source: Nationaal Archief]
Military recruits showing name signs

Conscripted soldiers of the radio engineers at Camp Zeist, 1934

Archives

  • Collectie Overijssel, the repository that keeps the archives of the province of Overijssel and the municipalities of Deventer and Overijssel, is going to move to Deventer. [Source: Collectie Overijssel]. The current building was only opened in 2006, making it one of the youngest archives in provincial capitals. Hopefully the plans for the new building will be more durable.
  • The National Archives of the Netherlands and Turkey signed an Memorandum of Understanding. The archives will collaborate on research, exchange scans, and share knowledge. The initiatives should facilitate research for Dutch people of Turkish descent. [Source: Nationaal Archief]
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About Yvette Hoitink

Yvette Hoitink, MLitt, CG®, QG™ is a professional genealogist, writer, and lecturer in the Netherlands. She has a Master of Letters in Family and Local History from the University of Dundee, and holds the Certification of Genealogist and Qualified Genealogist credentials. Yvette served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Genealogists and won excellence awards for her articles in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. Yvette has been doing genealogy for over 30 years. She helps people from across the world find their ancestors from the Netherlands and its former colonies, including New Netherland. Read about Yvette's professional genealogy services.

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