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*It will never say if the child is legitimate or illegitimate.
*It will never say if the child is legitimate or illegitimate.


If a child was born out of wedlock it will not usually mention a father, even if he is known. If the child's parents do later marry and the father acknowledge the child as his, it will mention this in the margin.At that time the last name of the child will also change from the mother's last name to the father's last name. However this does not mean that he is the biological father!. If the child is illegitimate, but the father is named, there is no reason to suspect false paternity. [[Netherlands Church Records|Church Records]] may be of use in these situations, but are difficult to access.
If a child was born out of wedlock it will not usually mention a father, even if he is known. If the child's parents do later marry and the father acknowledge the child as his, it will mention this in the margin.At that time the last name of the child will also change from the mother's last name to the father's last name. However this does not mean that he is the biological father!. If the child is illegitimate, but the father is named, there is no reason to suspect false paternity. [[Netherlands Church Records|Church Records]] may be of use in these situations, but are difficult to access.  
 
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Image: Netherlands Birth Registration.jpg|A Birth Record from 1841
Image: Netherlands Birth Registration.jpg|A Birth Record from 1841
Image: Netherlands Transcription of birth registrations.jpg|Dutch trascription
Image: Netherlands Transcription of birth registrations.jpg|Dutch trascription
Image: Netherlands Translation of birth registrations.jpg|English translation
Image: Netherlands Translation of birth registrations.jpg|English translation
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== Huwelijken / Marriage  ==
== Huwelijken / Marriage  ==
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*'''Marriage Consents''' [''Huwelijkstoestemmingen'']. Parents were normally present at the wedding and stated that they gave their consent for the couple to marry. If parents were absent, their written permission would be included with the marriage supplements. Beginning in 1913, separate registers were used to record the parents’ permission for the bride and groom to marry.
*'''Marriage Consents''' [''Huwelijkstoestemmingen'']. Parents were normally present at the wedding and stated that they gave their consent for the couple to marry. If parents were absent, their written permission would be included with the marriage supplements. Beginning in 1913, separate registers were used to record the parents’ permission for the bride and groom to marry.


 
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Image: Netherlands Marriage Registration.jpg|A Marriage record from 1901
Image: Netherlands Marriage Registration.jpg|A Marriage record from 1901
Image: Netherlands Transcription of Marriage Registration.jpg|Dutch Transcription
Image: Netherlands Transcription of Marriage Registration.jpg|Dutch Transcription
Image: Netherlands Translation of Marriage Registration.jpg|English Translation
Image: Netherlands Translation of Marriage Registration.jpg|English Translation
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== Echtscheidingen / Divorces  ==
== Echtscheidingen / Divorces  ==
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Remember, married women are always recorded under their maiden surname. The informant’s name (often a relative) is also given.<br>Information about parents, the birth date and birthplace of the deceased, and other information in a death record may be inaccurate since the person who gave the information may not have had complete information.  
Remember, married women are always recorded under their maiden surname. The informant’s name (often a relative) is also given.<br>Information about parents, the birth date and birthplace of the deceased, and other information in a death record may be inaccurate since the person who gave the information may not have had complete information.  


Children who died before the declaration of birth was made, are recorded as stillborn and are found only in the death records. This also means that when a child is recorded as stillborn it may not necessarily be true, as a birth had to be recorded within 3 days of birth. In other words, if the child died within those three days, it would most likely not be recorded in the birth records. When looking for a stillborn child you may have to look in the index under 'L' for 'Levenloos' (stillborn),
Children who died before the declaration of birth was made, are recorded as stillborn and are found only in the death records. This also means that when a child is recorded as stillborn it may not necessarily be true, as a birth had to be recorded within 3 days of birth. In other words, if the child died within those three days, it would most likely not be recorded in the birth records. When looking for a stillborn child you may have to look in the index under 'L' for 'Levenloos' (stillborn),  
 
Those people who were born without a fixed surname are probably recorded under a patronymic or were "given" a surname posthumously, often based on the farm they were born at or lived at.


Those people who were born without a fixed surname are probably recorded under a patronymic or were "given" a surname posthumously, often based on the farm they were born at or lived at.


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Image: Netherlands Death Registration.jpg|A Death record from 1922
Image: Netherlands Death Registration.jpg|A Death record from 1922
Image: Netherlands Transcription of death registrations.jpg|Dutch Transcription
Image: Netherlands Transcription of death registrations.jpg|Dutch Transcription
Image: Netherlands Translation of death registrations.jpg|English translation
Image: Netherlands Translation of death registrations.jpg|English translation
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== Overlijden/ Deaths after 1940  ==
== Overlijden/ Deaths after 1940  ==
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Always view the Marriage supplements after you have found a marriage using Zoekakten. Note the aktenummer(act number) of the marriage record, for the supplements are arranged in order of number. In some places the number is placed prominently in the corner of the image on a white card(added by the film taker). In most places each marriage has a title page giving the number, groom, and number of pages(not necessarily the number of images) . Finding the record you are after can be a long process, but it is worth it. As a general rule when searching, each marriage takes 5-6 images. Use this, the month, and the act number(Zoekakten often has the number of marriages that year displayed), to make an estimate of where to look first. Zoekakten and WieWasWie have began a partnership to index Marriage supplements, making them far easier to browse.  
Always view the Marriage supplements after you have found a marriage using Zoekakten. Note the aktenummer(act number) of the marriage record, for the supplements are arranged in order of number. In some places the number is placed prominently in the corner of the image on a white card(added by the film taker). In most places each marriage has a title page giving the number, groom, and number of pages(not necessarily the number of images) . Finding the record you are after can be a long process, but it is worth it. As a general rule when searching, each marriage takes 5-6 images. Use this, the month, and the act number(Zoekakten often has the number of marriages that year displayed), to make an estimate of where to look first. Zoekakten and WieWasWie have began a partnership to index Marriage supplements, making them far easier to browse.  


== Examples of Records  ==
Following are examples of birth, marriage and death records translated from original records:
Civil Registration - births
Number ninety-one
Today, the 6th of August eighteen hundred sixty -three, appeared before us (name of registrar) Frederic Louis Rambonnet, Burgermeester (mayor) , official of the civil registration office of the Gemeente Wijhe; Jan Westerveld, age forty years, day laborer, living in Wijhe, assisted by two witnesses, the first one named Lucas Eikelboom, age forty-nine years, farmer or builder (occupation) , and the second Hendrikus Johannes Christinus van Assen, age thirty-three years, blacksmith (occupation) , living in Wijhe, who has declared before us that his wife Willemina de Weerd, a laborer by occupation on the sixth of this [month] in the morning at three o’clock gave birth to a child of female gender , and to whom the first name of Martha Hendrika is given, from which declaration we have created this record, which, after having been read, is signed by us and the witnesses.
<br> Civil Registration - marriages
<br> Number eighteen
Today, the twenty-ninth of April in the year one thousand eight hundred fifty-eight, appeared before us Willem Christiaan Theodorus van Nahuijs, mayor, official of the civil registration office of the gemeente Wijhe in the public area of the town hall
Jan Westerveld, age thiry-five years, born and living in Wijhe , day laborer, of age son of Gerrit Westerveld, and of Marta Dollemans, by occupation farmers (or builders) , both living in Wijhe, and Willemina de Weerd, age thirty-three years, born in Heerde and living in Wijhe, day laborer, widow of Aalt Huge van de Beek, of age daughter of Hendrik Jan Geerlig de Weerd, and of Jennigje Boldewijn, both deceased
who asked us to perform their anticipated marriage, for which the public announcements had been made in front of the main door of the city hall here, on Sunday, the eighteenth, and Sunday, the twenty-fifth of April eighteen hundred fifty-eight, at eleven o’clock in the morning.
Since no objections to the said marriage were known to us, we have, after the future marriage partners had declared that they would take each other for spouses and dutifully fulfill all their duties, which are associated by the Law with the state of matrimony , declared in the name of the Law that
Jan Westerveld and Willemina de Weerd are united in marriage.
Of which we have created this record in the presence of
Lammert Halfwerk, age fourty-nine years, capenter, Willem Neppelenbroek, age fifty-three years, farmer Jozienus Eduard van Assen, age thirty-two years, employed by the Canton, and Jan Willem Broekhus, age fifty-four years, day laborer, all living in Wijhe, who have signed this record, after it had been read , together with us and the contracting parties.
Death Record
Number twenty-six
Today the seventeenth of March eighteen hundred fifty-seven appeared before us, Willem Christiaan Theodorus van Nahuijs, mayor, official of the civil registration office of the gemeente Wijhe
Jan Westerveld, age thirty-four years, and Berend Gerrits van der Wijk, age forty-three years, day laborers, both living in Wijhe
who have told us that Aalt Huge van de Beek, age thirty-nine years, born in Hattem, day laborer, spouse of Willemina de Weerd, by occupation a day laborer, living in Wijhe, son of Jan van de Beek and Fennigje Kolkers, day laborers living inHattem
living in Wijhe, has died on the sixteenth of this months at three o’clock in the afternoon at his home in the hamlet of Herxen.
Of which declaration we have written up this record, which, after having been read, was signed by us and the first witness; the second one did not know how to write.
<br> Marriage Supplements (Huwelijksbijlagen)
1. Extract of the husband’s birth
Overijssel Province Gemeente Wijhe
Civil Registration
Extract from the birth register of the above-named Gemeente
In the year one thousand eight hundred twenty-two on the twenty-first of the month of December was born Jan , son of Gerrit Westerveld and Marta Dollemans
As extract the mayor , official of the civil registration of the gemeente Wijhe. Wijhe, 17 April 1858
<br> 2. Extract of the wife’s birth
Civil Registration
Province Gelderland Arrondissement Arnhem Gemeente Heerde
Extract From the birth register of the Gemeente Heerde was extracted that Willemina, daughter of Hendrik Jan Geerlig de Weerd and Jennigje Boldewyn- married couple- was born on the seventh of April eighteen hundred thirty five crossed out and corrected in the margin to “eighteen hundred twenty five” in Heerde.
[signed by the registrar and certified as a proper copy on the bottom]
3. Militia certificate
National Militia Province Overijssel Certificate
The King’s commissioner in the province of Overijssel declares that Jan Westerveld, born in Wijhe on 21 December 1822, chair maker, son of Gerrit and of Marta Dollemans, by occupation nietdekken is enrolled in the National Militia in the gemeente of Wijhe, that in the lottery he received number 34, and that he is exempt in accordance with the decision made by the military council, which was held at Zwolle, .................... ......................... ................................... .
Given in Zwolle, on 15 April 1858
the King’s Commissioner in the Province
The block on the left of the document, if filled in, provides a physical description of the individual (height, stature, eye/hair color, shape of face, chin etc. )
4. Death certificate of the wife’s first husband
Province Overijssel Gemeente Wijhe Civil Registration
Extract from the death register of the above-named Gemeente
In the year one thousand eight hundred fifty-seven on the sixth of the month of March has passed away Aalt Huge van der Beek, husband of Willemina de Weerd.
Certified by the mayor, official of the civil registration office in the Gemeente Wijhe.


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