WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU TO BRING YOUR ANCESTORS TO LIFE?
Thanks to the vast amount of historic documents now available, much can be discovered about your Dutch ancestors.
1. FAMILY TREE
A family tree begins with you and continues with one or more lines of your ancestors, providing a wealth of information about your ancestry. The baptismal, birth, marriage, and death registers not only reveal important information about dates and places, they also tell you more about names, religion, occupations, origin and whereabouts, literacy, and ages. In addition, a family report that includes the children in each family shows the family background, which sometimes unveils stories about child mortality, foundlings, and illegitimacy. Studying who the witnesses were at baptismal and wedding ceremonies teach more the social network of your ancestors. And isn’t nice to have a look at the signatures of your great-great-great-grandparents, even if it is just a cross, because they were illiterate.