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Top 10 Dutch genealogy websites

WEBThere are thousands of sites that are helpful for researching your ancestors from the Netherlands. This list contains my 10 favorites. I have limited this list to …

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Dutch term – Pandemie

WEBA pandemie is a pandemic. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic hit the Netherlands pretty hard. About 38,000 people died. The province of Drenthe had the …

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What Dutch DNA Looks Like – 2018 edition

WEBWhat Dutch DNA Looks Like – 2018 edition. 13 July 2018 by Yvette Hoitink 50 Comments. In 2016, I wrote a blog post comparing the ethnicity predictions between …

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Dutch term – Tandarts

WEBA tandarts is a dentist. Dentists used to travel around for services at regional fairs. It did not become a regular medical profession until the twentieth century. By the …

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Six Levels of Ancestral Profiles – Level-up Challenge!

WEBLevel 4: Property ownership, military service, religion, criminal activity. These are ancestors for whom I have filled in more biographical details about their lives. I have …

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The Ancestor Conspiracy

WEBAs part of that project, I revisited the underlying research and discovered that I had identified the wrong person as my ancestor. Using a wide range of sources, I was …

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Dutch DNA Testing Strategy

WEBTaking a Y-DNA test is most useful if you have a more distant brick wall. You can test a brother, father, uncle, cousin or any other male in the strict male line (usually: …

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How far did my ancestors move

WEBThree of my ancestors died in hospitals, 41 km, 61 km, and 44 km (about 30-40 miles) from their homes. One ancestor was an illegitimate child from Sint Anna ter …

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Looking for prostitutes

WEBHealth risk. I asked Wilma, a historian who wrote her Master’s thesis about prostitution in 19th century Haarlem, if she knew how to go about proving or disproving …

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Emergency baptisms by the midwife

WEBEmergency baptism performed by a midwife, 1720. Credits: Bernard Picart, collection Rijksmuseum (Public Domain) These baptisms were usually later recorded in …

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Why are the Dutch so tall

WEBHere in the Netherlands, almost all of my male friends and some of my female friends are over 6′ tall. At 6’5″, my husband is considered to be tall, but not …

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Quick Tip – Spanish Flu in the Netherlands

WEBYvette Hoitink, CG ®, QG™ is a professional genealogist in the Netherlands who helps people find their Dutch ancestors.She is certified by the Board for Certification …

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Source: Municipal Reports

WEBSince 1851, municipalities were required to write annual reports about the state of the municipality. These reports rarely give information about individual …

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Was Eleanor of Aquitaine my Ancestor

WEBThe record confirms that Johannes Marijnissen was born in Breda on 11 November 1918 as the son of Petrus Marijnissen, a 21-year-old laborer, and Cornelia …

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Was Eleanor of Aquitaine my Ancestor

WEBThis is the fourteenth post in a series about my possible line of descent from Eleanor of Aquitaine. In the first post, I explained how I discovered the possible line, and …

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Ask Yvette – How to Record Transgender People

WEBMy recommendation that respects both these interests is this: Use the (current) gender and name of the transgender person as the default. Add the gender …

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