Researching Your Dutch Ancestors

If you have ancestors from the Netherlands, this talk introduces you to the most important records and shows you what you can find online, even if you don't know any Dutch. Learn how naming traditions and emigration patterns can help you find your Dutch ancestors.

The Netherlands has excellent records. Records of births, marriages, and deaths were kept by the civil registration since 1811 and by churches since the early 1600s. Genealogists who don’t look beyond these records may create trees that go back ten generations, but they can be bare or have mistakes. By…

Benelux ancestors? Be pampered with the Beneluxury lecture! Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, those countries so close on a map have common stories but their genealogical resources may differ How do you start a research there, especially if you're living far away? How do you juggle with records from those neighbouring countries when they have so much History in common but also many differences? Follow the Beneluxury lecture, if you have ancestors in those areas, it's going to be a real treat!

Wim Penninx heeft onderzoek gedaan naar regionale endogamie in het autosomale DNA van Gemert in Noord-Brabant. Endogamie is het kenmerk waarbij huwelijkskandidaten binnen een kleine kring gezocht worden. Dit fenomeen heeft herkenbare kenmerken in het DNA, en is bijvoorbeeld sterk zichtbaar in gesloten populaties, zoals de Ashkenazi Joden in Europa…

This webinar will help you get the basics of genealogy in the Netherlands before the commence of civil registration in 1811.

Experts Maarten Fornerod and Denie Kasan give tips and advice on how to research your roots in Surinam and the former Dutch East Indies.

In this webinar you hear about the development of Dutch family names, the elements of a person’s name, the use of patronymics.

A broad overview of research in Europe - a continent spanning more than thirty countries which has been subjected to wars, political unrest and border changes. Europe is a Continent with different languages, cultures and religions, all of which play a part in family history research. This presentation looks at…

Research reports are not just for professionals, but are a great tool for anyone who wants to answer their research questions. Write a research report to yourself to organize your thoughts, analyze the evidence, document your findings, and solve your puzzles. Using an example from the Netherlands, this presentation demonstrates how you can organize a research report to spot more clues in records, discover and resolve discrepancies, and build reliable conclusions.