Trace your Dutch roots

Postcard from Holland is a regular feature on this blog. From time to time, usually on Wednesday, I post a card from my collection of v...

It's already three months since Genlias closed down. So, how do we live without it, and how does its successor Wie Was Wie fare? Time f...

FamilySearch , the genealogy website of the Mormons , had scans of the civil register for a while now. Recently they also started adding sc...

SVB , the agency responsible for distributing child benefits in The Netherlands, publishes annual lists of the most popular Dutch baby names...

WieWasWie in English Last week I answered questions about WieWasWie , the successor of Dutch BMD site Genlias. One issue that remained una...