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TOPIC DETAILS After identifying your place and a topic of interest for that place, you will click on the topic and see the Topic Details screen. Understanding what to look for here can save you lots of time. Some tips and tricks include: • If you are looking for an original parish register, look at the author rather than the title first. The author will be a church organization rather than a name. By examining the author you can easily weed out the non-original records. You can also more easily identify the religious affiliation you are seeking. • Does the range of years make sense for the record you are looking at? Some of the cataloging is not as precise as we would like. Look at the record detail to be sure the desired years and events are what you need. • Catalog entries for microfilm numbers under 0,900,000 tend to be less precise. CATALOG ENTRIES The Title Details screen typically displays the Title, Statement of Responsibility, Authors, Notes, Subjects, Format, Language, Publication, and Physical Description information. It may also display summary contents, alternate titles, subject class, other reference information, or a link to a digital copy. A link to film notes is also found when a title has been microfilmed. Besides the title, the most useful information is: • View Film Notes: It is not uncommon for patrons to find the title and print the page not realizing that the item is on microfilm only and that the “View Film Notes” link has to be clicked to get the film/fiche numbers. • Authors: The link there can be used to find other sources from the same author. Remember that the author can be a county court, church, or other organization. • Notes: A note can include anything from the date a county was organized to when the courthouse burned. It may also describe limitations to a source. Review the notes to better understand a record when searching it. Also, if a family history has been digitized by BYU, the link will be found here. • Subject field: Can give you clues about what subject to use to find related material. • Format field: Helps you understand what you will be looking at. Is it an original record or a transcript? Is it on book or film or both? • Publication: It’s often helpful to know when an item was published or filmed. If a history was published in the 1800s, it may be more relevant than one published recently. Also, if it is a government or archive record and it was filmed in the 1950s, it may not be as easy to read as one filmed more recently. • Physical Description: Pay attention to how many pages something is. If it is a book of marriage records and is only 12 pages long, the source may not be what you think it is. • Subject class: The subject class can be important because it will help you find books on the same subject. The subject class has a precise meaning and can be used when doing a call number search. See the section titled “Call Number Search” When printing an entry, the printable version may not be the format you want. It is more concise, but you have to pay particular attention when printing out a list of film numbers to make sure you know which information is applied to a film. © 2011 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reprinted, posted online, or reproduced in any form for any purpose without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Dutch Family History Research on the Internet FamilySearch Baerbel K. Johnson, AG ® E-Mail : johnsonbx@familysearch.org The Internet is a wonderful tool for Dutch genealogical research. Indexes to civil registration and church records, gazetteers, maps, postcards, and photographs are available on various archive Web sites. GENERAL RESEARCH WEB SITES http://www.genlias.nl - GenLias is a genealogical collection created by the Rijksarchiefdienst (National Archive). It currently contains primarily indexes of town civil registration records beginning 1811 for various provinces. An introduction and a search interface in English are available. On the home page, click on the word “English” found on the top right hand side. http://www.cbg.nl - Central Bureau voor Genealogie – This is the equivalent of a national clearing house for genealogical information. Some English introductory pages are available. Holdings can be searched for a surname by entering the name in the search field “zoeken in Catalogus” on the home page. A color coded page shows which categories of resources are available for this name. [Green button- hits found, grey button – nothing found]. Resources include printed genealogies in the CBG library, funeral cards and – notices, pictures, and contact information of others researching the surname, among others. http://www.archiefnet.nl/ - web site for the Dutch archive system. Click on the province in which you want to search, and a list of all the archives, by type and town, comes up with automatic links. If searching for a specific locality, click on “Nederland” in the top left and choose either “plaats” (place) or “provincie” (province). English is available for part of the site. http://www.geneaknowhow.net/ – This site includes research tips, maps, and other reference material for research in Belgium and the Netherlands. In addition, there are links to Internet resources and bibliographies of other digital source material. Basic instructions in English are available. To get to the digital sources, click on the folder titled “Digital Resources Netherlands and Belgium”. The left-hand navigation bar includes general information, passenger lists, and then names each province in both countries with the sections: ”Internet” [lists links to various internet resources for towns in this province], “bbs” [bulletin board systems], and “disk/cd-r” [material available on diskettes or CD-Rom, either free or for purchase]. Abbreviations are explained under “Explanations” at the bottom of the left-hand bar. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nldwgw/ - The Netherlands GenWeb project. The site has links to several state archive Web sites. http://leidenarchief.nl/home/collecties/verhalen/bladeren-door-blaeu/blaeu - Dutch maps from the 1650’s, drawn by Joannes Blaeu. The maps are very detailed and can be downloaded and printed. This Web site has the entire Blaeu atlas with text and maps.
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