Netherlands Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

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''Step 4. Copy the information, and document your sources.''  
''Step 4. Copy the information, and document your sources.''  


If you can, photocopy the record, put them on a disc or on your flashdrive/thumbdrive. If you can't, be sure to copy all the information in the entry, including:  
If you can, photocopy the record or download it on a disc or flashdrive/thumbdrive. If you can't, be sure to copy all the information in the entry, including:  
* All the people listed and their relationships to each other. (Remember, witnesses are often relatives.)  
* All the people listed and their relationships to each other. (Remember, witnesses are often relatives.)  
* All the dates in the entry and the events they pertain to. (Sometimes corrections to a birth record were added in the entry's margin.)  
* All the dates in the entry and the events they pertain to. (Sometimes corrections to a birth record were added in the entry's margin.)  
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* Did more than 3 years pass since the birth of the last child? If so, another child may have been born in a neighboring municipality.  
* Did more than 3 years pass since the birth of the last child? If so, another child may have been born in a neighboring municipality.  
* Did you search 5 years without finding any earlier birth entries of children? If you find no other entries, then begin looking for the parents' marriage record.
* Did you search 5 years without finding any earlier birth entries of children? If you find no other entries, then begin looking for the parents' marriage record.


== Huwelijken / Marriage ==
== Huwelijken / Marriage ==
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