To celebrate the 500th webinar, Legacy Family Tree Webinars has a free access weekend from Friday 14 until Sunday 16 April 2017. The free webinars include Yvette Hoitink's Researching your Dutch Ancestors, which she presented in September 2015. Did you miss the free weekend? You can sign up for a membership. For $49.95, you can watch any of the 500 webinars and all the new ones for a whole year. Or if you like binge watching, you can get a one month subscription for just $9.95. … [Read more...]
Dutch Genealogy Webinar – Questions about Locations
6 November 2015 by 1 Comment
This is my fourth and final post answering the questions asked by viewers of "Researching Your Dutch Ancestors" webinar. In this post, I will answer questions about locations. Are Holland and the Netherlands the same country? Holland is an alternative name used for the Netherlands, but the official name is The Netherlands. View this video for an explanation: Where there Holland boundary changes since the 1600s? There were major changes in the southern provinces, due to the Eighty Years' … [Read more...]
Dutch Genealogy Webinar – Questions about Immigrant Ancestors
2 October 2015 by 1 Comment
This is my second post answering the questions asked by viewers of my "Researching Your Dutch Ancestors" webinar. In this post, I will answer questions about finding immigrant ancestors. A good general strategy for finding immigrant ancestors is outlined in my article How to find my immigrant ancestor in the Netherlands? How do you trace your Dutch ancestor if you don't know when and were they arrived? This viewer had ancestors who arrived in the colonies in the 1700s. For these early … [Read more...]
Dutch Genealogy Webinar – Questions about Records
17 September 2015 by 15 Comments
During the webinar "Researching Your Dutch Ancestors," the viewers had the most interesting questions. I got to address some of them during the webinar, but thought they all deserve a reply so I'm dedicating this post to answer some more. There were so many great questions that I will have inspiration for several follow-up articles, so please stay tuned and follow this blog or newsletter to read them all. In this first article, I will answer the questions about records in the … [Read more...]
