Introduction

A short tour at the site Digital Resources Netherland and Belgium: 

The digital resources are integral workings, of interest for genealogical researchers. Beside resources you can find at the Internet you will also find lists of resources available on diskette and cd-rom; the use of bulletin board systems (bbs) for this kind of resources still exists, it's place rapidly has been taken by the Internet and disks, but at onepage you can find also info about it. 
Because this kind of working can not be without any faillure, you need to check the original register to be sure. At these pages you will not find the results from genealogical research. My own results can be found via the link Domain de-wit.net, at the left-uppercorner, where you also find my e-mail address.

In the left frame you can decide which information will appear in this frame. When you follow a link in this frame to an online resource, a new window will be opened. All information concerning the resources on the internet are available in English, except the passenger lists but that will not be a problem. Because only a small group of foreign visitors are interested in resources on cd-rom and dikettes (and bbs), I did not translate all these pages.

First of all there are the pages with informations about the provinces. On each page you can find at the top some resources concerning the whole province of a great part of it; after that you will find a place (or manor for instance) in an alfabetical list. Please remember, these places are mentioned under the province where they belong to nowadays! When a lot of links are available from one place, some sections are made. When it is applicable the following sections can be found:
- church books: parsihal books with baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials; mostly till 1796 or 1811, but also possible after these years; in the Nehterlands also other resources are kept in the series with church books, s.a. tax on marriages and burials and civil marriages for aldermen.
- civil records and register of population: civil records can be found from 1796 or 1811 on, registers of population start around 1840/1850
- remaining ecclesiastical: all kind of material, kept in ecclesiastical archives
- remaining non-ecclesiastical: all kind of material, kept in civil archives

General resources and from overseas territory you can find under General and overseas.  What Passenger lists will hide is obvious and Not for this site, but .... is not containing resources this site is made for, but they are valuable enough to mention over here. Finally you can go to Worldwide meta-links. Under Explanation you can find your guide through the three media at this site and when you have digital resources yourself please look at Do you have resources? New resources on this site can be found under New (partly in Dutch).  For help you can use the link places and language to find places and maps and for understanding some of the words.
Links are in made in bold on the pages concerning the internet; at the pages for resources at diskette and cd-rom and on the bulletin boards, only the names of the places are made in bold, here of course not mentioned to be a link.

We do not link to services which require payment. In case of files or services which can only be accessed following registration, this is indicated by [REGISTRATION].

Happy digital hunting!

Herman de Wit