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Genlias added birth and marriage acts from Friesland, and birth, marriage and death acts from Utrecht.
The Dutch National Archive published new images on flickr The Commons, including a set of images related to New York.
The archives in Groningen opened a new image database: Beeldbank Groningen.
Drenlias, the database of BMD acts from Drenthe, added scans of death acts of the period 1943-1952. This includes the death act of the concentration camp in Westerbork, but also many death acts of Jews who died in e.g. Auschwitz or Sobibor. Death acts for these people were usually made up after the war in their last place of residence. These death acts often have supplements, scans of these documents are also online.
Last year, I wrote about the Archiefbank (Archives Database) of the Amsterdam City Archive. The Archiefbank recently became available in English. The Archiefbank was one of the winners of Best Archives Website, awarded by ArchivesNext.

Photo: Queen Wilhelmina visits New York and is welcomed by Mayor La Guardia. Dutch National Archive, on flickr The Commons.

News from the Dutch archives:

Several archives, museums, and other institutions cooperated to created the Image Bank WW2, with thousands of photographs from the second world war.
The Central Bureau for Genealogy published scans of parts of their collection online. This is a paid service. We will soon look at the online collection in our online records series.
Tresoar added 1750 photos of Jewish graves from Friesland to their website.
New records on the website of the Amsterdam city archive: archiefkaarten. These cards were copies of persoonskaarten that were made when the city of Amsterdam had to hand over the persoonskaart to another authority, usually because the subject of the card died or moved to another city. One million cards, created between 1939 and 1960, are now online.

Unknown said...: Would any one be aware of a town, place or area called Odink in the mid 1700. I found wedding bans in Amsterdam stating Jan Hendrik Thomas came from Odink. When I was in Salt Lake City someone mentioned it might be in the Province of Gelderland.

If any one has any information I would really appreciate hearing from them.

Ada P. Thomas Vancouver BC
Henk van Kampen said...: I checked a few reference works, but I can't find "Odink". I think there are two possibilities:

* The original text is misread (or misspelled), maybe it should be Odijk.

* It is not a place but a farm, most likely in Achterhoek (a region in the east of Gelderland) or Twente (a region in the east of Overijssel).

As you found it in Amsterdam, I think Odijk (province Utrecht) is the most likely, unless you've seen the handwriting and can be absolutely sure it reads Odink and not Odijk.

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