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(This portal is associated with the Portaal voor Nederlandstaligen, the portal for Dutch speaking Geni users)
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This is the access point for the global Geni user community to the Dutch speaking users and Dutch-language sources.
Tracing ancestors in The Netherlands and Flanders.
This portal helps you to find...
- Dutch-speaking users who can help you with your research
- access to online sources in The Netherlands and Flanders, such as registries and archives If you have Dutch or Flemish ancestors, or if you study ancestral lines in the Dutch language sphere, please follow and participate in this project.
if you want to translate from Dutch these may be useful: https://www.deepl.com/translator and https://translate.google.com
Because in 2023 it was 400 years ago the Pilgrims left Leiden to go to America Meet your ancestor
Naming conventions for the Dutch part of the tree
- Please keep in mind that with a marriage in the Netherlands the wife keeps her own last name, so please do NOT enter the last name of the husband in the last name field of the wife (you can use is in the Display name and/or in the Also known as)
- The Dutch do not have a middle name, so that field is used for patronymics (please put all given names in the First name field)
- Please do not put a nickname in the First name or Middle name field, please put it in the Also know as field and if you want to also in the Display name
- please keep in mind the Dutch can have a prefix name part that should be in lower case and should go in the Last name field before the last name (most common ones are: van, de, van der, van de). The Belgium's do not have this prefix field so they write the name parts all with a starting capital if it is a Belgium last name. This also makes a difference in sort order when sorting on last name.
- Please user proper case (names start with uppercase letter followed by lower case letters (see https://www.geni.com/account_settings/name_preferences to display in uppercase). You can use SmartCopy (https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783) to convert all caps to proper caps
- please use the default language tab if the profile has only Dutch names, only use the Dutch language tab if names are changed on emigration or when a historical profile with sources in multiple languages.
This may be helpful (please read): New Netherland naming systems and customs (you might need a free Family Search membership to be able to read it)
New naming rules for the Netherlands (2024)
From 2024, children may be given both the father's surname (a) and the mother's surname (b) or a combination thereof (i.e. a, b, a b or b a).
If those children have children again then they too may have up to 2 surnames where a choice can be made between the surnames of the parents concerned and their own surnames (i.e. 10 options).
If the eldest child was born on or after 1 Jan 2016, the parents can retrospectively give their children a double surname until 1 Jan 2025. The order chosen then applies to all children of the same parents.
If parents have a child in 2024 and already have a child born before 2016, they can no longer give their children a double surname.
Access to Dutch speaking users
At the associated Portaal voor Nederlandstaligen (portal for Dutch speaking Geni users), you will find hundreds of registered users. However, your place to communicate with them is this International Dutch Portal. You need help with sources? You need an expert opinion? You want further collaboration or start projects with Dutch speaking users? If you have a request, please start a 'discussion' and formulate your question - someone will pick it up!
- How to handle names correctly in Dutch profiles? - A guideline from Dutch Geni-users to improve the quality of name processing in The Netherlands and Flanders.
- HELLO DUTCH SPEAKERS... could you please translate?
Merging
Most Dutch profiles use the default language tab and use only the Dutch language tab when the profile is known with different names in different languages (like a name change after immigration), but there are profiles that do only use the Dutch language tab. Please check the profile after merging to see if some data should be moved to another language tab.
If you merge a profile please try to solve the data conflicts and when you cannot please inform the managers.
When you solve name conflicts please try to keep all names (put them in the AKA field)
Data conflicts can be accessed from this list: https://www.geni.com/list/data_conflicts?order=&direction=&filter=&collection=updated
It can be hard to see data conflicts so it can help to install SmartCopy (https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783) and configure it to show them.
Please be careful with the date format the Dutch use DD MM YYYY so when you see a conflict where DD and MM are exchanged there could be a problem with this setting: https://www.geni.com/account_settings/localization for one of the managers.
If you need some general help with merging there are some help links on this project (English version, bottom of page)
Access to sources in The Netherlands and Flanders
General Advice
Please follow the official records as much as possible.
- Civic Registries. Under Napoleonic rule, government administration of birth, marriages and deaths was introduced in Flanders (1796) and The Netherlands (1811).
- Church Records. Since 1563 (the Council of Trent), churches gradually introduced the keeping of birth, marriage and death records (abbreviated in dutch to DTB records). Transcriptions are available on FamilySearch microfilm (online).
- Notary Records. These records often go even further back and contain genealogical information around land deeds, house sales, marriage contracts... Some of these are preserved in local archives (rarely online, but with interesting exceptions).
More links and detailed information...
- The Netherlands: Nederlandse Bronnen (Dutch Sources) (The Dutch version of the project has more links, you might try to use Google translate to read Dutch sources). From this project you can also access projects for provincial sources
- Nederland gerelateerde Bronnen - Dutch Related Sources
- Flanders: Vlaamse Bronnen (Flemish Sources)
- Germany: International German Portal
Quick Search Access
Netherlands - NATIONAL, country-level
- Nationaal Archief (English version), the national archives of The Netherlands.
- Open Archives (English version), records from church and civil registries from open Dutch archives
- WieWasWie (English version), formerly known as Genlias, the official civil registers - which includes most births, marriages and deaths in The Netherlands, since 1811
- Archieven.nl (English version)
Netherlands - Provincial and Local level...
- See Dutch Sources...
Flanders
- See Flemish Sources
Nederlandse Antillen - (Dutch West Indies)
- Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles Portal
- Names and naming practices in the Dutch West Indies
- ... attributions welcome ! ...
- ...translations in PAPIAMENTO also welkom....
Indonesia - (Dutch East Indies)
Zuid Afrika (South Africa)
Also...
Check out the Digital Sources Netherlands and Belgium site. This holds an extensive collection of links and lists that result from record transcriptions by volunteers.
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