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This is the access point for the global Geni user community to the Dutch speaking users and Dutch-language sources.
This portal helps you to find...
if you want to translate from Dutch these may be useful: https://www.deepl.com/translator and https://translate.google.com
Because it was 400 years ago the Pilgrims left Leiden to go to America Meet your ancestor
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)
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?
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)
Please follow the official records as much as possible.
- 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
- See Flemish Sources
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.
If you need help with Geni itself you can find some help info here