Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online sources The Regional Archives in Tilburg published several abstracts of court and notarial records of Tilburg, Loon op Zand, Oisterwijk and Moergestel. See the blog post for details. A report on the field names of the former municipality of Princenhage is now available online. Go to Downloads > Erfgoedrapporten Overig > Veldnamen in Princenhage. The Bosch' Protocol, … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online sources The Bosch' Protocol, the court records of 's-Hertogenbosch, has been indexed and is now searchable for the periodd 1501-1793 via the Erfgoed 's-Hertogenbosch website. Volunteers entered 350,000 records from 27,000 scans. Court records from West-Friesland, including the courts of Enkhuizen, Hoorn, Medemblik, Grootebroek and Sijbekarspel, have been digitized and are … [Read more...]

The website ZoekAkten used to provide convenient waypoints to online images of Dutch records, mainly at FamilySearch but also at other websites. Unfortunately, the creator of the website decided to pull the plug, so the website is now offline. There are several other websites that help you find online records: FamilySearch > Catalog and then search for a place name. FamilySearch > Netherlands Research Page. Digital Resources Netherlands and Belgium Geneal-IX … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online sources Scans of the aldermen's court of Gilze and Rijen in Noord-Brabant (1602-1811) are available online at the Regionaal Archief Tilburg website. The records of Willem Kolff, the inventor of the artificial kidney, have been scanned by the Kampen City Archives, where the records are kept. The collection can be consulted via Archieven.nl. Several transcriptions of tax and … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online sources  An index of all the church records of baptisms, marriages, and burials in the province of Utrecht is now available at the Utrechts Archief website. The index contains 10 million persons from 1576 to 1811. The Regionaal Archief Tilburg published scans of civil registration records of Moergestel (marriages 1915-1942), Oisterwijk (marriages, 1921-1942), and Oosterhout … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online sources The area around Maastricht, Limburg has been added to HisGis, the historical geographical information system. You can click on a plot to see the owners. The population register of Haarlem, Noord-Holland for the period 1849-1860 has been indexed and is available via the Noord-Hollands Archief website. When the Zuiderzee was closed by the Afsluitdijk [dike], many … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online sources ZoekAkten, the website that provided easy waypoints to the Dutch records at FamilySearch, has been taken offline. The volunteer behind the website decided to pull the plug. The records themselves can still be found via the Netherlands page or via the Catalog at FamilySearch. Volunteers have indexed the "Oost-Indisch Boek," the military service records for soldiers in … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online sources An index and scans of the slave registers of Suriname from 1851-1863 were published at GahetNA. The index and scans from the period 1830-1851 will follow later this year. The website GenealogieDomein published several transcribed tax records from 1763 of different places in East-Gelderland. Scans of the notarial records of Haarlem from 1573 to 1842 were published … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Offline records Normally, we start this monthly overview by listing all the records that went online. Last month, most of the news has been about records that have gone offline: Many archives took the population registers for the period 1910-1938 offline because of new privacy laws. Many archives took photographs of unknown photographers offline, after a judge ruled in favor of a … [Read more...]