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Winner of the RQG Student Prize
I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded the RQG Student Prize 2024 for the University of Dundee. The Register of Qualified Genealogists awards prizes each year to students who achieved the highest marks on their final thesis/dissertation. The University of Dundee’s Family and Local History postgraduate degree (Master of Letters) is one […]
Map of the week – Krimpenerwaard water board, 1792
This map shows the water board of Krimpenerwaard, the area around Schoonhoven, south of Gouda in the current province of South Holland. See the waterschap blog post to learn more about water boards. The map shows the different polders and streams in the water board’s district. The map can help you locate ancestral properties if […]
5 Strategies to Find Elusive Dutch Ancestors
If you cannot find your ancestor from the Netherlands, here are five strategies for you. 1. Reanalyze what you have My first tip is to reanalyze what you already have. Take the time to go through every record and see if there is more evidence hiding in there. I have often found that when I […]
Map of the Week – Brabant, 1659
In 1659, the famous mapmaker Joan Blaeu published his world atlas Tooneel des Aardrycks [Display of the Realm of Earth]. The archives in Leiden have made their atlas available online. This map shows the Duchy of Brabant. It is oriented with the north toward the right. You can see that various places that are now […]
Map of the Week – Dikes and Dunes near Petten, 1730
This week, we are looking at a map of the area south of Petten in the province of Holland (now North-Holland) in 1730. The water board commissioned the map from Jan Spruytenburgh and Hendrik de Leth. The map tells the history of the landscape, and reclaiming the land to create polders. On the left side, […]
Quick Tip – Legacy Family Tree Webinar Sale
Legacy Family Tree Webinars is having a sale this week, through to Friday the 6th. You can now get a year-long subscription with 50% off, for $24.98. This gives you access to 2,311 webinars including the following webinars I presented: Researching Your Dutch Ancestors Lesser Used Records for Research in the Netherlands Using MyHeritage to […]
Dutch term – Ruilverkaveling
Ruilverkaveling means to trade plots of land to consolidate land ownership. At the beginning of the 20th century, land ownership was fragmented. Larger plots were easier to work with machines. As mechanization of agriculture increased, so did the demand to consolidate the small plots in larger plots. The first ruilverkaveling took place on the island […]
