Netherlands Websites: Difference between revisions

[[Netherlands WieWasWie Records|WieWasWie]] is the premier site for Netherlands genealogy and also for former Dutch colonies. Until January 2016, it is completely free to use, afterwards it will cost 18.50 euros for advanced features. It contains indexes to civil registration from every part of the Netherlands. By now nearly all marriage records up to 1932 are online, as well as a sizable proportion of death records to 1962 and birth records to 1912. It also has some church records, population registers, military conscription records and newspaper notices. Many records also have the original image. 110 Million names are online as of December 2015.  

Family Search has built up a large collection of Netherlands records, most of which are online. Civil regitstration and church records should be viewed via Zoekakten(see below). The following collections exist that cannot be viewed via Zoekakten  

*[http://zoekakten.nl/ Zoekakten] allows easier access to images of records found on FamilySearch.org for the Netherlands and Belgium. Search by province, then place or municipality. Choose the record type and time period to link to the images. This site is particularly useful for records that are not yet on WieWasWie and those that are but whose images are not available on WieWasWie. See [[Netherlands Civil Registration|Netherlands Civil Registration]] for details on how to use the site for post-1811 research.

*[http://www.geneaknowhow.net/ Geneaknowhow.net Digital Resources] includes research tips, maps, and other reference material for research in Belgium and the Netherlands. In addition, there are links to Internet resources and bibliographies of other digital source material. Basic instructions in English are available. To get to the digital sources, click on the folder titled “[http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/resources.html Digital Resources Netherlands and Belgium]”. The left-hand navigation bar includes general information, passenger lists, and then names each province in both countries with the sections:”Internet” [lists links to various internet resources for towns in this province] and “disk/cd-r” [material available on diskettes or CD-Rom, either free or for purchase]. So-called “bulletin-board systems” are listed below. Abbreviations are explained under “Explanations” on the bottom of the left-hand bar.  

*[http://www.vpnd.nl Van Papier naar Digitaal] is a subsidary of Geneaknowhow. It contains images and indexes of Church Records and other pre-1811 sources such as censuses, resident lists and tax records.