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Information about Huguenots has been extracted from the parish registers of the French Protestant and Dutch Reformed Churches and entered, in abbreviated form, on cards that now comprise the ''Collection des Fiches'', a section of the Walloon Library now housed in the Central Office for Genealogy. Because it was formerly at Leiden, it is also referred to as the ''Leiden Collection''. | Information about Huguenots has been extracted from the parish registers of the French Protestant and Dutch Reformed Churches and entered, in abbreviated form, on cards that now comprise the ''Collection des Fiches'', a section of the Walloon Library now housed in the Central Office for Genealogy. Because it was formerly at Leiden, it is also referred to as the ''Leiden Collection''. | ||
You can also find the French churches under the heading "Walloon Church", the services were mostly spoken and recorded in French. | |||
Effective research in church records requires some understanding of your ancestor’s religion and of the events that led to the creation of church records. | |||
== Doopsgezinden or Mennonites (Anabaptists) == | == Doopsgezinden or Mennonites (Anabaptists) == | ||