Dalfsen, Overijssel

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Dalfsen is a municipality in Overijssel. It is located to the east of Zwolle, and north of Deventer, squarely within the Sallands region

It contains the following places: Dalfsen, Ankum, Hoonhorst,Lenthe, Emmen, Lemelerveld, Nieuwuleusen and Oudleusen.

In 2001 it absorbed the former municipality Nieuwleusen

Church Records

Images of Church Records are accessible from the HCO inventory 0124 and VPND. Transcriptions and indexes can be found at the HCO, GeneaKnowHow and VPND. Some of the records have been transcribed or indexed, and these are detailed in the text below.

All couples, regardless of their religion, were required before 1794/5 to have their marriage registered in the Dutch Reformed church. From 1795-1811 all couples were required to marry before the secular authorities (gerecht).Burials of non-Dutch Reformed persons may also have taken place in the Dutch Reformed church.

According to the 1840 census, present day Dalfsen was 77% Protestant, 23% Catholic and <1% Jewish

Dutch Reformed

In Dalfsen baptisms were recorded from 1679. There is a gap in the marriage records from 1697-1741. The site ouddalfsen.nl has alphabeticalized transcriptions, and VPND also has a conventional chronological transcription.

In Nieuwleusen baptisms and marriages were recorded from 1663, though several gaps exist before 1754. VPND has a transcription.

Other Religions

At the Hoonhorst in Dalfsen was a Catholic church. Records start in 1695 with a gap in marriages from 1750-1769. VPND and ouddalfsen.nl have transcriptions.

Civil Registration

In 1811 the Napoelonic Regime began the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. This has been continued by the Dutch government ever since. Civil registration is organized around municipalities of the time of the events.

For Dalfsen and its former municipalities, births from 1811-1912, marriages from 1811-1932 and deaths from 1811-1960 are on WieWasWie and OpenArch.

The original images are not linked to this index, so use Zoekakten to access them. Zoekakten or the FamilySearch Catalog may also have images for births 1913-1916, marriages 1933-1941 and deaths 1961-1966. Births older than 100 years, marriages older than 75 years and deaths older than 50 years are able to be publicly released but archives can be behind putting them online. Current policy is to release records in ten year blocs, so that in 2018 marriages to 1942 will be released and in 2023 births to 1922 and deaths to 1972 will be released.