An overlijdensakte is a death record. In most of the Netherlands, deaths have been recorded in death records of the civil registration since 1811. Before that, burial records kept by the churches are usually the best information available for finding out when someone died.
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Ahh. Levenloos. I had a lot of children named Levenloos until you straightened me out, lol!