Netherlands Genealogical Records
Netherlands Birth & Baptism Records
An index to over 2.1 million birth and baptism records, listing parents' names.
A database containing information extracted from birth and christening records from selected localities in The Netherlands, including parents' names.
Netherlands Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to over 550,000 marriage records, including date and place of marriage and the names of the bride and groom.
An index to around 70,000 marriage records, including date and place of marriage and the names of the bride and groom.
Netherlands Death & Burial Records
An index of around 200,000 death records. The index may include names of relatives and details of the death.
A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.
Newspapers Covering Netherlands
An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.
An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.
An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.
Netherlands Immigration & Travel Records
Index of pioneer immigrants with image links to journals, autobiographies, letters, and other narratives. The immigrants were from the British, Scandinavian, Swedish, and Netherlands Missions.
50,000 extracts from New York passenger lists, including the name; gender; birthplace; age; occupation; country of origin; port of embarkation; ship accommodations; port of arrival; date of arrival; intended destination; family status; occupation and more of Dutch immigrants.
The name; gender; age; occupation; last residence; port of embarkation; port of arrival; date of arrival; intended destination; family status; name of vessel and source information of 56,000 Dutch immigrants extracted from passenger lists.
Netherlands Military Records
An index to over 6.5 million medals and awards bestowed on British military personnel. The awards are the British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal, 1914 Star, Territorial War Force Medal and Allied Subjects Medal; the latter of which contains many French, Belgians and Dutch.
An index to and images records detailing the incarceration of 1.34 million military personnel, civilians, diplomats, missionaries & merchant seamen who were held as prisoners of war. The records cover British prisoners held by foreign powers and non-British prisoners held by Britain.
Administrative, strategic, and other documents relating to U.S. operations in Europe during World War II.
Details of around 120,000 European Jews saved from concentration camps and ghettos.
Netherlands Directories & Gazetteers
A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.
Useful for locating places, this searchable gazetteer gives brief details, latitude and longitude for more than 1.5 million features, places and regions throughout the world.
A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.
Netherlands Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Netherlands Histories & Books
Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.
Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.
Details of around 120,000 European Jews saved from concentration camps and ghettos.
Netherlands Occupation & Business Records
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.
A database of cricket scores and players.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Netherlands
The lineages of German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Czech and Austrian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
A collection of legacy trees submitted by Ancestry users containing nearly 400 million individuals.
Netherlands Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
The lineages of German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Czech and Austrian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A growing collection of heraldic and related clip art that can be used to reconstruct a families' arms. Includes packs for British, German, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Polish, Portuguese, French, Swiss and Dutch arms. Images are available in a variety of formats including vectors.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Netherlands Church Records
Index of pioneer immigrants with image links to journals, autobiographies, letters, and other narratives. The immigrants were from the British, Scandinavian, Swedish, and Netherlands Missions.
Netherlands Maps
An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.
Netherlands Reference Works
A growing collection of heraldic and related clip art that can be used to reconstruct a families' arms. Includes packs for British, German, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Polish, Portuguese, French, Swiss and Dutch arms. Images are available in a variety of formats including vectors.
A database containing variants of 100,000s of given names used by Jews.
Historical Description
On the North-west of Italy lyeth Germany, which is divided into the higher and the lower; this latter is called Netherland. It is bounded on the East, with Ems, and part of Germany; on the West, with the German Sea; on the North, with East-Friezeland; and on the South, with the Some, Champaigne, and Lorrain.
The Situation
The Air of this Countrey is very intemperate, the winter-cold being excessive, and the summers-heat far exceeding the ordinary heat of that Clime.
Natures of the People
The Men for the most part are well proportioned, much given to our English Beer, being excessive in their drinking, so that you shall hardly find a Dutch-man sober in an afternoon. The Women generally are of a good complexion, well proportioned, especially in their leg and foot; honourers of virtue; active, and familiar; both within doors and without they govern all.
Diet
In their Diet, Butter is the first and last dish at the table, whereof they make all sauces; as well your Men as Women passing from City to City to trade, carry with them Cheese, and Boxes of Butter, for their food. They use no Spits here, but see the little pieces of flesh with Roots, and Gobbets of fat mingled, without any curiosity; or else bake them in earthen Pipkins.
Fertility
They have abundance of Butter, Cheese, and Roots for Corn, they have not sufficient for their own use, yet by traffick at Dantzick they furnish themselves and many other Nations therewith. They have little plenty of River fish, but Sea fishes salted and dryed, they make great traffick therewith. There is great abundance of Sea-fowl, and they want not Land-fowl.
Commodity
The Commodities in which they most abound, are Tapistries, Sayes, Searges, Worsteds, Frigadoes, and divers sorts of linnen Cloth, with abundance of other small trifles.
This Countrey is divided into seventeen Provinces, viz.
Into -4 Dukedoms, 1. Limburg, 2. Luxenburg, 3. Gelderland, 4. Brabant, 1 Marquisate, Of the Holy Empire. 7 Earldoms -1. Flanders, 2. Artoys, 3. Hainault, 4. Namurre, 5. Zutphen, 6. Holland, 7. Zealand. 5 Baronies -1. West-Friezl, 2. Utretch, 3. Overysell, 4. Machlyn, 5. Groyning.
A maritime country of Central Europe, with an area of 12,761 square miles, and a population of 6,843,436 (1920). The trade between the United Kingdom and the kingdom of the Netherlands is of considerable importance. The Dutch are chiefly devoted to maritime, farming, and agricultural pursuits. The mercantile marine is very important, and a large carrying trade is done with England and her colonies. Holland supplies us with agricultural and dairy produce to the extent of three-quarters of her exports. The total value of the Exports to the United Kingdom in 1920 was £39,253,702. In 1914 the exports were £24,310,821, and included, besides dairy produce, woollen and cotton goods, chemicals, painters' colours, paper, geneva, hides, sugar, and metals. Cocoa and chocolate are also supplied in large quantities, and there is an increasing trade in vegetables and bulbs. Holland is a capital field for proprietary articles of British and American manufacture. The Imports from the United Kingdom (valued in 1920 is £62,138,433) normally consist of metals, hardware, machinery, cotton yarn and manufactures, wool and woollen goods, drugs, patent medicines, and proprietary articles. These figures do not include the trade returns of the Dutch colonies. Amsterdam, the chief city, had in 1920 a population of 649,335 ; The Hague, 360,425; and Rotterdam, 507,661.
Most Common Surnames in Netherlands
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de Jong | 91,285 | 1:185 | |
| 2 | Jansen | 83,120 | 1:203 | |
| 3 | de Vries | 78,115 | 1:216 | |
| 4 | Bakker | 61,635 | 1:274 | |
| 5 | Janssen | 59,969 | 1:282 | |
| 6 | van Dijk | 58,026 | 1:291 | |
| 7 | Visser | 55,804 | 1:303 | |
| 8 | Smit | 46,824 | 1:361 | |
| 9 | de Boer | 43,543 | 1:388 | |
| 10 | de Groot | 41,079 | 1:411 | |
| 11 | Mulder | 40,955 | 1:412 | |
| 12 | Meijer | 39,867 | 1:424 | |
| 13 | Bos | 39,388 | 1:429 | |
| 14 | Vos | 34,090 | 1:495 | |
| 15 | Peters | 33,006 | 1:512 | |
| 16 | van der Berg | 32,887 | 1:513 | |
| 17 | Hendriks | 31,698 | 1:533 | |
| 18 | Dekker | 31,369 | 1:538 | |
| 19 | van Leeuwen | 30,803 | 1:548 | |
| 20 | Brouwer | 29,277 | 1:577 | |
| 21 | van den Berg | 27,565 | 1:613 | |
| 22 | Dijkstra | 26,854 | 1:629 | |
| 23 | de Wit | 25,921 | 1:651 | |
| 24 | Smits | 25,843 | 1:653 | |
| 25 | Kok | 23,322 | 1:724 | |
| 26 | Vermeulen | 23,079 | 1:732 | |
| 27 | de Graaf | 22,952 | 1:736 | |
| 28 | van der Meer | 22,653 | 1:745 | |
| 29 | Jacobs | 22,312 | 1:757 | |
| 30 | de Haan | 21,739 | 1:777 | |
| 31 | van der Linden | 21,094 | 1:801 | |
| 32 | Schouten | 19,177 | 1:881 | |
| 33 | van der Veen | 19,052 | 1:886 | |
| 34 | de Bruin | 18,908 | 1:893 | |
| 35 | van Vliet | 18,569 | 1:909 | |
| 36 | Willems | 18,536 | 1:911 | |
| 37 | Hoekstra | 18,031 | 1:937 | |
| 38 | van Beek | 17,839 | 1:947 | |
| 39 | Koster | 17,516 | 1:964 | |
| 40 | Maas | 17,185 | 1:983 | |
| 41 | van Dam | 17,017 | 1:992 | |
| 42 | Prins | 16,941 | 1:997 | |
| 43 | Verhoeven | 16,593 | 1:1,018 | |
| 44 | Huisman | 16,454 | 1:1,026 | |
| 45 | Blom | 16,311 | 1:1,035 | |
| 46 | Peeters | 15,829 | 1:1,067 | |
| 47 | Kuipers | 15,798 | 1:1,069 | |
| 48 | de Bruijn | 15,608 | 1:1,082 | |
| 49 | van der Heijden | 15,546 | 1:1,086 | |
| 50 | de Jonge | 15,508 | 1:1,089 | |
| 51 | Kramer | 15,371 | 1:1,099 | |
| 52 | Post | 15,283 | 1:1,105 | |
| 53 | van der Wal | 15,000 | 1:1,126 | |
| 54 | Kuiper | 14,842 | 1:1,138 | |
| 55 | van Veen | 14,798 | 1:1,141 | |
| 56 | Boer | 14,774 | 1:1,143 | |
| 57 | Groot | 14,451 | 1:1,169 | |
| 58 | Scholten | 14,348 | 1:1,177 | |
| 59 | Klein | 14,087 | 1:1,199 | |
| 60 | van Wijk | 14,031 | 1:1,204 | |
| 61 | Martens | 13,634 | 1:1,239 | |
| 62 | Veenstra | 13,604 | 1:1,241 | |
| 63 | Groen | 13,554 | 1:1,246 | |
| 64 | Vink | 13,407 | 1:1,260 | |
| 65 | Postma | 13,374 | 1:1,263 | |
| 66 | Bosch | 13,142 | 1:1,285 | |
| 67 | de Ruiter | 13,140 | 1:1,285 | |
| 68 | Koning | 13,130 | 1:1,286 | |
| 69 | Smeets | 12,985 | 1:1,301 | |
| 70 | de Lange | 12,919 | 1:1,307 | |
| 71 | Timmermans | 12,896 | 1:1,309 | |
| 72 | Jonker | 12,649 | 1:1,335 | |
| 73 | de Vos | 12,613 | 1:1,339 | |
| 74 | de Koning | 12,438 | 1:1,358 | |
| 75 | Hermans | 12,281 | 1:1,375 | |
| 76 | Gerritsen | 12,229 | 1:1,381 | |
| 77 | Schipper | 12,158 | 1:1,389 | |
| 78 | Van Loon | 12,011 | 1:1,406 | |
| 79 | Willemsen | 11,854 | 1:1,425 | |
| 80 | Evers | 11,639 | 1:1,451 | |
| 81 | Driessen | 11,569 | 1:1,460 | |
| 82 | Sanders | 11,522 | 1:1,466 | |
| 83 | Molenaar | 11,316 | 1:1,492 | |
| 84 | van Dongen | 11,302 | 1:1,494 | |
| 85 | Mol | 11,297 | 1:1,495 | |
| 86 | Bosman | 11,151 | 1:1,514 | |
| 87 | van Doorn | 11,058 | 1:1,527 | |
| 88 | van der Laan | 10,970 | 1:1,539 | |
| 89 | Verbeek | 10,800 | 1:1,564 | |
| 90 | de Leeuw | 10,772 | 1:1,568 | |
| 91 | van der Velden | 10,681 | 1:1,581 | |
| 92 | van der Meulen | 10,648 | 1:1,586 | |
| 93 | van der Horst | 10,642 | 1:1,587 | |
| 94 | Roos | 10,635 | 1:1,588 | |
| 95 | van der Heuvel | 10,570 | 1:1,598 | |
| 96 | Stam | 10,507 | 1:1,607 | |
| 97 | Hofman | 10,479 | 1:1,612 | |
| 98 | Muller | 10,432 | 1:1,619 | |
| 99 | Kroon | 10,410 | 1:1,622 | |
| 100 | Wolters | 10,250 | 1:1,648 | |
| 101 | van der Velde | 10,146 | 1:1,664 | |
| 102 | van der Ven | 10,096 | 1:1,673 | |
| 103 | van der Broek | 9,978 | 1:1,692 | |
| 104 | Groeneveld | 9,683 | 1:1,744 | |
| 105 | de Haas | 9,681 | 1:1,744 | |
| 106 | Wouters | 9,650 | 1:1,750 | |
| 107 | Koopman | 9,645 | 1:1,751 | |
| 108 | Bosma | 9,641 | 1:1,752 | |
| 109 | Timmer | 9,622 | 1:1,755 | |
| 110 | van Rijn | 9,571 | 1:1,764 | |
| 111 | Schaap | 9,394 | 1:1,798 | |
| 112 | Zijlstra | 9,372 | 1:1,802 | |
| 113 | Verhagen | 9,333 | 1:1,809 | |
| 114 | van den Heuvel | 9,250 | 1:1,826 | |
| 115 | Simons | 9,198 | 1:1,836 | |
| 116 | Pronk | 9,189 | 1:1,838 | |
| 117 | Boon | 9,025 | 1:1,871 | |
| 118 | Vonk | 8,960 | 1:1,885 | |
| 119 | Dekkers | 8,886 | 1:1,900 | |
| 120 | Stevens | 8,788 | 1:1,922 | |
| 121 | Kuijpers | 8,667 | 1:1,948 | |
| 122 | Rutten | 8,646 | 1:1,953 | |
| 123 | Jager | 8,618 | 1:1,960 | |
| 124 | Snijders | 8,617 | 1:1,960 | |
| 125 | de Jager | 8,589 | 1:1,966 | |
| 126 | Bouwman | 8,569 | 1:1,971 | |
| 127 | van den Broek | 8,545 | 1:1,976 | |
| 128 | Versteeg | 8,530 | 1:1,980 | |
| 129 | Blok | 8,476 | 1:1,992 | |
| 130 | Otten | 8,461 | 1:1,996 | |
| 131 | Vermeer | 8,383 | 1:2,014 | |
| 132 | Faber | 8,376 | 1:2,016 | |
| 133 | Klaassen | 8,357 | 1:2,021 | |
| 134 | Aarts | 8,094 | 1:2,086 | |
| 135 | Franken | 8,081 | 1:2,090 | |
| 136 | Boersma | 8,062 | 1:2,095 | |
| 137 | Dijk | 8,044 | 1:2,099 | |
| 138 | Geurts | 8,033 | 1:2,102 | |
| 139 | Lammers | 8,021 | 1:2,105 | |
| 140 | van Schaik | 7,987 | 1:2,114 | |
| 141 | Joosten | 7,825 | 1:2,158 | |
| 142 | Cornelissen | 7,803 | 1:2,164 | |
| 143 | de Rooij | 7,764 | 1:2,175 | |
| 144 | Bouman | 7,715 | 1:2,189 | |
| 145 | Damen | 7,641 | 1:2,210 | |
| 146 | Derks | 7,542 | 1:2,239 | |
| 147 | Roelofs | 7,539 | 1:2,240 | |
| 148 | Arts | 7,521 | 1:2,245 | |
| 148 | Teunissen | 7,521 | 1:2,245 | |
| 150 | van der Pol | 7,478 | 1:2,258 | |
| 151 | Timmerman | 7,420 | 1:2,276 | |
| 152 | Verweij | 7,321 | 1:2,307 | |
| 153 | Hoek | 7,303 | 1:2,312 | |
| 154 | Venema | 7,292 | 1:2,316 | |
| 155 | Gerrits | 7,291 | 1:2,316 | |
| 156 | Verhoef | 7,252 | 1:2,329 | |
| 157 | Zwart | 7,229 | 1:2,336 | |
| 158 | Goossens | 7,206 | 1:2,343 | |
| 159 | Schuurman | 7,199 | 1:2,346 | |
| 160 | Wiersma | 7,170 | 1:2,355 | |
| 161 | Kamphuis | 7,149 | 1:2,362 | |
| 162 | Thijssen | 7,102 | 1:2,378 | |
| 163 | Derksen | 7,035 | 1:2,400 | |
| 164 | van der Brink | 7,010 | 1:2,409 | |
| 165 | Wessels | 6,984 | 1:2,418 | |
| 166 | Visscher | 6,968 | 1:2,424 | |
| 167 | van der Werf | 6,962 | 1:2,426 | |
| 168 | van der Plas | 6,953 | 1:2,429 | |
| 169 | Jong | 6,952 | 1:2,429 | |
| 170 | Baars | 6,938 | 1:2,434 | |
| 170 | van Eijk | 6,938 | 1:2,434 | |
| 172 | Baas | 6,925 | 1:2,439 | |
| 173 | van den Akker | 6,806 | 1:2,481 | |
| 174 | Brink | 6,770 | 1:2,494 | |
| 175 | Bouma | 6,731 | 1:2,509 | |
| 176 | van der Heide | 6,727 | 1:2,510 | |
| 177 | Brouwers | 6,716 | 1:2,514 | |
| 178 | Terpstra | 6,673 | 1:2,531 | |
| 179 | Bijl | 6,616 | 1:2,552 | |
| 180 | van Driel | 6,606 | 1:2,556 | |
| 181 | Berg | 6,573 | 1:2,569 | |
| 182 | Hartman | 6,544 | 1:2,581 | |
| 183 | Pieters | 6,518 | 1:2,591 | |
| 184 | van der Steen | 6,507 | 1:2,595 | |
| 185 | van der Hoek | 6,479 | 1:2,606 | |
| 186 | Keizer | 6,468 | 1:2,611 | |
| 187 | van der Burg | 6,450 | 1:2,618 | |
| 188 | Rietveld | 6,438 | 1:2,623 | |
| 189 | Veen | 6,431 | 1:2,626 | |
| 190 | Brand | 6,410 | 1:2,635 | |
| 191 | van Eck | 6,379 | 1:2,647 | |
| 192 | Kersten | 6,373 | 1:2,650 | |
| 193 | Arends | 6,363 | 1:2,654 | |
| 194 | van Rooij | 6,321 | 1:2,672 | |
| 195 | Feenstra | 6,280 | 1:2,689 | |
| 196 | Koopmans | 6,242 | 1:2,705 | |
| 197 | van Rossum | 6,233 | 1:2,709 | |
| 198 | Vissers | 6,230 | 1:2,711 | |
| 199 | Knol | 6,226 | 1:2,712 | |
| 200 | Hoogendoorn | 6,200 | 1:2,724 | |