Other Important Genealogical Sources 

Besides the aforementioned genealogical sources there are many more sources to be found in the archival institutions in Holland that are interesting for the genealogist. A short description of the main sources follows:

Church membership registers - The reformed churches kept a list of their members (important in the period before 1811).

Civil or gate books - Everybody who wanted to establish himself in a Dutch city to practice a trade or to have an occupation from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, had to obtain the civil rights or gate rights of that city.

Military books - Military people were registered by company. The military books for a large part are filed in the General State Archives in The Hague.

Juridical and notarial archives - These archives contain documents like testaments, documents of buying and selling properties, mortgages, post-divorce property splitting, authorizations, court decisions, convictions, etc. They are filed in the different archival institutions.

Family weapons and heraldry - For more information concerning family weapons and heraldry one should ask the Central Bureau for Genealogy.

 

For the genealogist it is important to know that a copy of a large part of the DTB registers and the civil registers of Holland are filed on microfiche at the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

The Central Bureau for Genealogy also has a large collection of microfiches of the above mentioned and other genealogical sources.