Dutch Genealogy News for September 2024

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and other news from the last month.

Sources

• Death records of various municipalities in Noord-Brabant 1971-1973 have been digitized and indexed and can now be consulted via the Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum.
• The Nieuwe Texelsche Courant 1896-1930, a newspaper for the island of Texel, is now available via the Regionaal Archief Alkmaar.
• A transcription of the orphan chamber records of Bodegraven 1619-1724 is now available via Genealogie Rijnland.
• Historical letters by Margaretha Turnor and Godard van Reede-Ginkel have been made searchable using handwritten text recognition.
• 1821 charters from the south of Utrecht have been digitized and are now available via the finding aids.
• The National Archives has now integrated full-text search options into the finding aid of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC). The records were transcribed using handwritten text recognition software. The integration into the finding aids is currently in a pilot phase. To activate the option, you need to create an account on the website and then go to your account > “Instellingen” [settings] to check that you want to use the “Nieuwe presentatie” [new presentation]. You are invited to use the Feedback option on the right of the website if you encounter problems.

View of Visiapour castle, India, about 1665. Credits: Johannes Vingboons, collection Nationaal Archief (public domain)

Archives

• Collectie Overijssel added an option in their finding aids to download the entire series of scans of one call number. The option is available in the Archieven (archives/records) section of their website in the scan viewer, in the download tab.

Projects

• The Drents Archief is looking for diaries of women in rural areas of Drenthe in the 1970s. See the article for contact details.
• Collectie Overijssel, the organization that keeps the records for the province of Overijssel and the municipality of Zwolle, is digitizing civil registration records of Overijssel that became public in the last couple of years. After these are returned (late 2024) the old town records of Zwolle and Deventer will be digitized, expected to go online in the Spring of 2025. [Source: Collectie Overijssel]

Church and market in Zwolle. Credits: H.J. van Hoogstraten, J.G. Scheurleer, collection Collectie Overijssel (public domain)