A gezin is a nuclear family, consisting of a couple and their children. Other family members who lived in the same household can be considered part of the gezin too.
The jolly family. Credits: Jan Steen, collection Rijksmuseum.
About Yvette HoitinkYvette 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.
Hello Yvette,
I have come across Atlantis as a source on some websites by researchers. Do you know what this source is?
Thank you and sorry to say I likely will not be able to attend the conference in May 2018. I have four lines that tie back into the Netherlands so I could have benefited from the conference. Maybe some other time and closer to home.
Thank you
Atlantis is a product by an archival supplier. Some archives use that platform to publish their genealogical indexes and scans. So Atlantis itself is not a source, it’s a platform to publish sources.
Sorry to hear you won’t come to Grand Rapids. After the NGS conference, you will be able to purchase downloads of the presentations. I will announce that on the blog when they are available.
Greetings Yvette,
Thank you so much for the information about Atlantis. I have researched on my dutch ancestors and found I have many! My father’s and mother’s sides both have dutch connections. On my father’s side I am back to the mid/late 1600’s.
In the future I would like to talk to you more about your services for researching them in areas that I lack access to and areas I don’t know about. I found an item referring to one person which looks kind of like an obituary, but not sure.
I would like to point out that I’m interested in the people that were my ancestors, what they were like, where they lived, what they did as a means to support themselves, what the economic, religious conditions were at that time. Is this something you could research ?
I’m very interested in those downloads when available.
Thank you, Yvette and take care.
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