Links

The home page genealogie.pagina.nl contains links to a huge number of government and private websites in the Netherlands and elsewhere.

The website www.geneaknowhow.net features many "digital sources in the Netherlands and Belgium". These include population data from church archives, ships' passengers lists and information from judicial archives.

If you want to be alerted about additions to Genlias, you can sign up for the Genlias monitor. This service was developed by a genealogist to inform you which new records have been added to Genlias for a particular surname. The Genlias monitor queries the Genlias database during the night, so it does not affect the availability of Genlias. Visit www.genliasmonitor.nl for more information and for support about using the Genlias monitor.

For the experienced genealogist, a visit to www.archieven.nl is worthwhile. By entering a search term you can directly browse the inventories or access points of many hundreds of archives throughout the Netherlands.

The largest non-commercial database in the world is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, better known as the Mormons. Tracing their ancestors is a religious duty for a Mormon. As a result the church has microfilmed population data from archive sources worldwide. You can search the information it has collected on the website www.familysearch.org.

To research overseas ancestors, you can also consult the thematic databases of the Nationaal Archief. These contain information about people such as freed slaves and contract workers.