Today, we are looking at the birth record of Albertien Nijboer (1873). Translation Today, the 15th of April eighteen hundred seventy-three, appeared before me the undersigned, civil registrar of the municipality of Ruinen, province of Drenthe: Jan Freriks Nijboer, thirty-one years old, farmer by profession, living in Ruinen, in the municipality of Ruinen. He declared Read more…
One of the questions I often get from clients outside the Netherlands, is: “can you find records that tell when my family left Holland?” Recently, a new source has become available to answer that question: the passenger lists of the Holland America Line. The original records have been digitized and volunteers are now entering names Read more…
One of the most frequently asked questions I get from clients is: “Where in the Netherlands did my ancestors live?” This question is easy to answer if an address is mentioned in one of the records that are available for your Dutch family members. Most bigger cities in the Netherlands introduced addresses (street name plus Read more…