Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online records The Rotterdam City Archives have made the information about 1.2 million people in the population registers for 1850-1930 available via Archieven.nl. The information was entered by volunteers at Vele Handen. The Amsterdam City Archives published an index and scans of the population registers of municipalities that have been annexed by Amsterdam for the period … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online records Many civil registration records from the Dutch East Indies have been published by FamilySearch and can be accessed via the Catalog and place name. Access to these scans is limited to Family History Centers, where they can be viewed on internet computers. [Source: Indische Genealogische Vereniging] Population registers (1820-1850) and World War I refugee registers … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Online records Population registers of Maastricht fom 1850 to 1920 have been indexed and are availble at the Regional History Center Limburg website. Scans of Civil Registration Records from the Heusden and Altena area are now available online. A project is underway to index the information. Notarial records from Weesp from 1609 to 1812 have beeen added to the website of the … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Sources Notarial records of Tilburg from 1926-1935 (except wills) and all the public notarial records of Oosterhout from 1612 to 1935 are now available at the Regional Archives Tilburg website. Church records of various municipalities in Limburg and the neighboring German area were published on GenBronnen. The municipality of Deventer has published 4,000 photos of the department … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and news about archives that were announced last month. Sources The newspapers Volkskrant, Trouw, and Het Parool for the period 1945-1995 have been added to the national newspaper website Delpher. The publication was made possible thanks to a licensing agreement that allowed the Royal Library to publish these papers, which are protected by copyright. The notarial records of West-Friesland in Noord-Holland for the period 1843-1925 have … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, websites, and projects that were announced last month. Online records The Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (the Noord-Brabant provincial archives) made 100 meter [about 350 feet] of notarial records available online, mostly from the 1800s. 250,000 records have been indexed, so you can search by name. View the Notarial records. Brabant prison records of more than 300,000 criminals have been added to the Brabant Historisch Informatie Centrum … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of the new sources, websites, and projects that were announced last month. Online Dutch records 30,000 scans of records about the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and Dutch East India Company (VOC) from the archives of the States General have been added to the gahetNA website of the National Archives. View the scans in the finding aid of the States General. These records are especially valuable since many of the early WIC records were sold for scrap paper, so the records … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of new records and projects that were announced in the past month. Online Dutch records The register recording the poor of Gorssel, Gelderland, that was discovered earlier this year, has been digitized and added to the website of the Zutphen Regional Archives. The West-Fries Archief published indexes of the old notarial records. See the Genealogische bronnen [genealogical sources] page for a complete overview of the sources. You can filter by "Notariële akten" … [Read more...]

Here is an overview of new records and projects that were announced in the past month. Online Dutch Records Notarial records of the following municipalities in Friesland are now available via AlleFriezen, mainly for the 1920s and 1930s: St. Annaparochie, Balk, Beetsterzwaag, Bolsward, Drachten, Dronrijp, Franeker, Giekerk, Hardegarijp, Heerenveen, and Marrum. Zoekakten updated its links to FamilySearch with a range of links to scans of notarial records in Zeeland and Zuid-Holland. … [Read more...]