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== Record Description ==
== Overview ==


Church records [''kerkelijke'' registers] are excellent sources for accurate information on names as well as dates and places of births, marriages, and deaths. Most people who lived in the Netherlands were recorded in a church record.  
Church records [''DTB''] are the main sources for births, marriages and deaths in the Netherlands between about 1550 and 1811.They recorded baptisms(or circumcisions), marriages and burials and sometimes confirmations, membership records and conversions.


Records of births, marriages, and deaths are commonly called "civil registration" because critical events in a person’s life are recorded in them. Church records that contain vital records were made by ministers and priests. They are often called parish registers or church books. They include records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials. In addition, church records may include account books (which record fees for tolling bells, fees for masses for the dead, and so forth), lists of confirmations, and lists of members.
The main types of Church records are


Church records are crucial for pre-1811 Dutch research. Church records continued to be kept after the introduction of civil registration, but the Family History Library has not microfilmed many post–1811 church records. See the "[[Netherlands Civil Registration]]" section for more information about post–1811 sources.
*''Dopens''(Baptisms)
*''Trouwens''(Marriages)
*''Begravens''(Burials)
*''Lidmaten''(List of Parish Members)
 
 
Church records are arranged by religion. Most people in the Netherlands belonged to either the Dutch Reformed(''Nederduits Gereformeerd'' or Roman Catholic Churches. Some belonged to other religions such as Lutherans, Mennonites(''Doopsgezinde'') or were Jews(''Jooden'')
 
 
Church records are crucial for pre-1811 Dutch research. Church records continued to be kept after the introduction of civil registration,but are not kept by the Family History Library and are generally difficult to access. They were mostly superseded by [[Civil registration|Netherlands Civil Registration]]


== Baptism/Christening [''Dopen'']  ==
== Baptism/Christening [''Dopen'']  ==
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=== Here are some examples  ===
=== Here are some examples  ===


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*Search the burial registers for all family members.
*Search the burial registers for all family members.


[[Category:Netherlands]][[Category:Church records by Country]]
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