Overijssel Genealogical Records

Overijssel Birth & Baptism Records

Netherlands Birth & Baptism Index (1564-1910)

An index to over 2.1 million birth and baptism records, listing parents' names.

Netherlands Birth & Christening Index (1608-1882)

A database containing information extracted from birth and christening records from selected localities in The Netherlands, including parents' names.

Overijssel Marriage & Divorce Records

Netherlands Marriage Index (1565-1892)

An index to over 550,000 marriage records, including date and place of marriage and the names of the bride and groom.

Netherlands Marriage Index (1637-1892)

An index to around 70,000 marriage records, including date and place of marriage and the names of the bride and groom.

Overijssel Death & Burial Records

Netherlands Death & Burial Index (1668-1945)

An index of around 200,000 death records. The index may include names of relatives and details of the death.

Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry (1550-Present)

A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.

Newspapers Covering Overijssel

Name Card Index to AP Stories (1905-1990)

An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.

Subject Card Index to AP Stories (1937-1985)

An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.

AP Stories & Newsfeatures (1937-1985)

An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.

Overijssel Immigration & Travel Records

Mormon Migration Database (1840-1932)

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.

Dutch Immigrants Arriving in New York (1881-1894)

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.

Dutch Immigrants to America (1820-1880)

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.

Overijssel Military Records

UK WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls (1914-1920)

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.

Prisoners of War (1715-1945)

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.

US WWII European Theater Army Records (1942-1946)

Administrative, strategic, and other documents relating to U.S. operations in Europe during World War II.

Register of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (1945)

Details of around 120,000 European Jews saved from concentration camps and ghettos.

Overijssel Directories & Gazetteers

CIA World Factbook (1994)

A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.

World Foreign Gazetteer (1998)

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.

Crane's Directory & Buyer's Guide (1899-1900)

A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.

Overijssel Cemeteries

Billion Graves (1200-Present)

Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.

Overijssel Histories & Books

Ancestry Member Photos & Documents (6000 BC-Present)

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.

Ancestry Member Stories (6000 BC-Present)

Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.

Register of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (1945)

Details of around 120,000 European Jews saved from concentration camps and ghettos.

Overijssel Occupation & Business Records

Slave Voyages Database (1514-1866)

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.

Crane's Directory & Buyer's Guide (1899-1900)

A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.

Cricket Archive (1844-Present)

A database of cricket scores and players.

Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Overijssel

Monarch and Nobles of Medieval Germany (514-1600)

The lineages of German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Czech and Austrian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.

FamilySearch Community Trees (6000 BC-Present)

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.

Ancestry Member Family Trees (6000 BC-Present)

A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.

Genealogics (1400 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.

Ancestry World Tree (6000 BC-1997)

A collection of legacy trees submitted by Ancestry users containing nearly 400 million individuals.

Overijssel Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records

Monarch and Nobles of Medieval Germany (514-1600)

The lineages of German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Czech and Austrian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.

FamilySearch Community Trees (6000 BC-Present)

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.

Heraldry Clipart (1189-Present)

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.

Genealogics (1400 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.

Overijssel Church Records

Mormon Migration Database (1840-1932)

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.

Overijssel Maps

Old Maps Online (1497-2010)

An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.

Overijssel Reference Works

Heraldry Clipart (1189-Present)

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.

Jewish Name Database (1400-Present)

A database containing variants of 100,000s of given names used by Jews.

Most Common Surnames in Overijssel

RankSurnameIncidenceFrequencyPercent of ParentRank in Netherlands
1Jansen6,4491:1767.76%2
2de Vries4,6701:2435.98%3
3Mulder4,5431:25011.09%11
4van Dijk4,1981:2707.23%6
5Meijer4,1011:27710.29%12
6Smit4,0021:2848.55%8
7Bakker3,9061:2916.34%4
8de Jong3,5001:3243.83%1
9Scholten3,3261:34123.18%58
10Bos3,2001:3558.12%13
11Kamphuis2,7971:40639.12%161
12Nijhuis2,7421:41451.40%265
13Vos2,7141:4187.96%14
14Kuipers2,7111:41917.16%47
15van der Berg2,5731:4417.82%16
16Oude2,5321:44861.13%392
17Nijland2,4351:46645.19%253
18de Boer2,4021:4725.52%9
19Visser2,3361:4864.19%7
20Bosch2,1821:52016.60%66
21Dekker2,1351:5326.81%18
22Kok2,0111:5648.62%25
23Visscher2,0021:56728.73%166
24Brouwer1,9171:5926.55%20
25van der Veen1,9091:59510.02%33
26Klein1,8421:61613.08%59
27de Groot1,8091:6274.40%10
28Wessels1,7851:63625.56%165
29Kuiper1,7821:63712.01%54
30Timmerman1,7681:64223.83%151
31Janssen1,7271:6572.88%5
32Veldhuis1,6771:67731.85%270
33Nijkamp1,6581:68552.74%561
34Peters1,6411:6924.97%15
35Hendriks1,6141:7035.09%17
36Dijkstra1,5451:7355.75%22
37Huisman1,5391:7379.35%44
38Gerritsen1,4951:75912.23%76
39Mensink1,4871:76339.72%449
40Prins1,4701:7728.68%42
41Meijerink1,4511:78238.81%450
42de Lange1,4431:78611.17%70
43Nijenhuis1,4321:79326.23%242
44Schuurman1,4071:80719.54%159
45Post1,4011:8109.17%52
46Schutte1,3821:82126.35%272
46Stegeman1,3821:82136.72%444
48Bouwhuis1,3741:82644.57%579
49Olde Reuver1,3571:83675.85%1,227
50Wolters1,3521:83913.19%100
51Voortman1,3021:87251.18%752
52Koopman1,2961:87613.44%107
53Gerrits1,2831:88517.60%155
54Nijhof1,2741:89132.70%427
55Koster1,2721:8927.26%39
56Knol1,2601:90120.24%199
57Roelofs1,2521:90616.61%147
58de Haan1,2471:9105.74%30
59Nieuwenhuis1,2301:92319.90%204
60ter Horst1,2191:93127.74%358
61Schipper1,2141:9359.99%77
62Brinkman1,2001:94619.43%205
63de Jonge1,1861:9577.65%50
64Bosman1,1781:96310.56%86
64Evers1,1781:96310.12%80
64Kroeze1,1781:96335.35%523
67van den Berg1,1721:9684.25%21
68Otten1,1451:99113.53%130
68van der Kolk1,1451:99122.98%301
70Slot1,1421:99426.07%360
71Kamp1,1281:1,00620.99%258
72Willems1,1171:1,0166.03%36
73Schepers1,1091:1,02318.71%219
74ter Haar1,0981:1,03428.74%433
75Jonker1,0811:1,0508.55%72
76van der Vegt1,0731:1,05833.08%540
77Bruins1,0671:1,06422.89%327
78Geerdink1,0541:1,07751.72%1,027
78Nijboer1,0541:1,07730.72%509
80ten Brinke1,0511:1,08046.32%891
81de Graaf1,0401:1,0914.53%27
82Lubbers1,0371:1,09422.37%332
82Nijmeijer1,0371:1,09439.60%716
84Altena1,0231:1,10934.36%602
85Hesselink1,0091:1,12544.92%900
86Dijk9981:1,13712.41%137
87Leferink9931:1,14357.63%1,292
88Hofman9871:1,1509.42%97
89Lansink9821:1,15660.25%1,392
90Lammers9791:1,15912.21%139
91Snijders9681:1,17211.23%124
92Hoekstra9571:1,1865.31%37
93Veenstra9461:1,2006.95%62
94Groen9211:1,2326.80%63
94Marsman9211:1,23241.39%913
96Baan9181:1,23628.93%557
97Boers9161:1,23915.70%225
98Wesselink8941:1,26935.31%756
98Wissink8941:1,26934.98%746
100van Veen8911:1,2746.02%55
100Willemsen8911:1,2747.52%79
102Assink8851:1,28253.28%1,356
103Morsink8831:1,28553.97%1,388
104Ruiter8801:1,29014.21%202
104Velthuis8801:1,29038.72%888
106Veldman8741:1,29914.87%221
107van der Wal8691:1,3065.79%53
108Olde8661:1,31154.36%1,442
108ten Hove8661:1,31135.02%775
110Boer8631:1,3155.84%56
110Brink8631:1,31512.75%174
112Jager8581:1,3239.96%123
112Koning8581:1,3236.53%68
112Postma8581:1,3236.42%65
115Waanders8501:1,33550.36%1,329
116Keizer8471:1,34013.10%186
116Tijhuis8471:1,34061.60%1,750
118de Ruiter8411:1,3496.40%67
119Damhuis8381:1,35456.39%1,583
120Lohuis8271:1,37264.11%1,905
121Harmsen8251:1,37618.46%350
121van der Velde8251:1,3768.13%101
123Beltman8191:1,38646.91%1,273
123Olthof8191:1,38630.71%705
125Reinders8001:1,41913.87%229
126Spijker7971:1,42425.42%566
127van der Meer7921:1,4333.50%28
128Groothuis7891:1,43837.90%992
128Muller7891:1,4387.56%98
130Vrielink7831:1,44946.55%1,336
131van Leeuwen7781:1,4592.53%19
131Westerhof7781:1,45918.77%391
133Bruggeman7751:1,46427.01%635
134Bouwmeester7671:1,48014.97%283
135Sanders7641:1,4856.63%82
135Schrijver7641:1,48521.11%472
135Stam7641:1,4857.27%96
138Kappert7591:1,49546.11%1,373
139ter Braak7561:1,50152.72%1,662
140Timmer7531:1,5077.83%109
141van Dam7471:1,5194.39%41
142Groot7361:1,5425.09%57
142Zwiers7361:1,54222.87%547
144de Wit7281:1,5592.81%23
144Pol7281:1,55913.36%245
146Arends7251:1,56511.39%193
146Ligtenberg7251:1,56538.36%1,141
146van der Linde7251:1,56513.25%240
149Hofstede7201:1,57622.96%564
150van Beek7171:1,5834.02%38
151ten Dam7121:1,59449.48%1,656
152Brand7091:1,60111.06%190
153Eshuis7011:1,61939.07%1,221
154Groeneveld6981:1,6267.21%104
154van der Meulen6981:1,6266.56%92
156Winters6951:1,63321.90%556
157Wiggers6901:1,64529.46%844
158Kremer6871:1,65217.13%409
159Leusink6841:1,65939.13%1,272
159Westendorp6841:1,65941.20%1,357
161de Wilde6701:1,69412.31%246
161Kolkman6701:1,69427.72%805
163Schoemaker6591:1,72222.76%628
164Schippers6561:1,73012.21%260
165Pierik6541:1,73543.86%1,574
166van Benthem6481:1,75140.00%1,404
167Hegeman6431:1,76542.33%1,540
167Schreurs6431:1,76510.98%222
169Blom6401:1,7733.92%45
170Hutten6371:1,78240.57%1,474
171ten Berge6341:1,79028.55%916
172van der Belt6321:1,79646.81%1,796
173Kelder6291:1,80430.49%1,010
174Kroes6211:1,82813.25%325
174Wind6211:1,82821.65%636
176Bouwman6181:1,8367.21%126
177Alberts6121:1,85414.26%368
178Beens6101:1,86140.97%1,577
179Berends6071:1,87011.29%256
179Haarman6071:1,87048.99%2,010
179Hekman6071:1,87037.24%1,392
179Maathuis6071:1,87063.83%2,757
183Pot6011:1,88814.45%387
184van Essen5991:1,8959.68%203
185Mol5961:1,9045.28%85
186Smits5901:1,9242.28%24
187Ekkel5871:1,93365.08%2,921
187Jacobs5871:1,9332.63%29
187Veurink5871:1,93366.93%3,011
190Valk5821:1,95010.91%266
191Bosma5791:1,9606.01%108
191Broekhuis5791:1,96035.96%1,421
191Wevers5791:1,96026.58%943
194Albers5761:1,97010.22%231
194Rook5761:1,97026.25%935
196Hof5741:1,97710.62%250
196Temmink5741:1,97750.09%2,216
198Engbers5711:1,98846.73%2,047
199Blokhuis5681:1,99843.23%1,867
199Huiskes5681:1,99840.26%1,694
199Rietman5681:1,99841.31%1,750
199Steenbergen5681:1,99810.57%259
199Veldkamp5681:1,99816.57%510
199Zomer5681:1,99825.01%890