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Divorce cases are handled by the district courts. A record of the divorce will be recorded at the back of the marriage register of the municipality where the couple lived at the time of their divorce. For large cities in later years they will be in separate registers. There is sometimes a note in the margin of the original marriage record. Divorces before the 20th century were uncommon. | Divorce cases are handled by the district courts. A record of the divorce will be recorded at the back of the marriage register of the municipality where the couple lived at the time of their divorce. For large cities in later years they will be in separate registers. There is sometimes a note in the margin of the original marriage record. Divorces before the 20th century were uncommon. | ||
== Overlijden / Deaths == | |||
Death records are especially helpful because they may provide important information on a person’s birth, spouse, and parents. Civil death records often exist for individuals whom there are no birth or marriage records for. Deaths were usually registered within a day or two of the death in the municipality where the person died. | |||
The records give the deceased person’s name, date and place of death, age, birthplace, occupation, spouse’s name, and parents’ names. Married women are recorded under their maiden surname. If the spouse and parents are living, their occupation and residence will be given; otherwise it will name the place of their death. The informant’s name (often a relative) is also given. 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. | |||
Those people who were born without a fixed surname are probably recorded under a different name (like a patronymic surname) in the death records. | |||
The Central Bureau for Genealogy or [http://194.171.109.12/lang/EN cbg] has records of everyone who has died since 1940. | |||