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Reading Dutch Civil Registration (view source)
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== Births == | == Births == | ||
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Image: Netherlands Birth Registration.jpg|A Birth Record from 1841 | |||
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'''Op Heden Den Tweeentwingtsten Maart Achtienhonderd Een-en-veertig''': The first line is the date the birth was registered, not that date of birth. You will need to know Dutch numbers and months to read ths line. This example reads ''Today the twenty-second March Eighteen Hundred and Forty-One.'' | '''Op Heden Den Tweeentwingtsten Maart Achtienhonderd Een-en-veertig''': The first line is the date the birth was registered, not that date of birth. You will need to know Dutch numbers and months to read ths line. This example reads ''Today the twenty-second March Eighteen Hundred and Forty-One.'' | ||
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That is a typical birth record from the Netherlands. Sometimes the witnesses are named straight after the informant. | That is a typical birth record from the Netherlands. Sometimes the witnesses are named straight after the informant. | ||
If the mother is illegitimate, the father might later the acknowledge the child as his (it may not actually be his child). A note will be written in the margin in that case. | If the mother is illegitimate, the father might later the acknowledge the child as his (it may not actually be his child). A note will be written in the margin in that case. | ||
== Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||