Over the past few weeks, I have been thoroughly reviewing the burial registers of Tilburg. Not because I was looking for additional information about my own family members, many of whom came from this city in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. No, I wanted to get to know these registers better. Burial registers are often Read more…
In the first week of September, I had the privilige to guide a group of Americans who signed up for the Netherlands Trip of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B). All participants are descendants of 17th century Dutch immigrants. What did we do? Leiden On the first day we visited Leiden. In the Read more…
For a long time, the rules regarding surnames in the Netherlands were not too complex. Children from a legal marriage were given the father’s surname. Children born to unmarried mothers were given the mother’s surname. But a new law has changed this from 1 January 2024. Napoleon Let us go back in time… Until 1811, Read more…