Dutch Genealogy News for April 2025

Here is an overview of all the new sources, websites, and news from archives that came out in the past month.

Sources

Death Duties Files of Brabant 1903-1927 have been digitized and indexed and can be searched at the Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum website.
Catholic baptisms, marriages, and burials, and marriage duties registers of Hoorn have been indexed and are now available via the West-Fries Archief.
Leiden police reports from World War II (1940-1945) can now be consulted via Hic Sunt Leones.
Hospital records of Tilburg have been indexed and scanned and can be searched at the Regionaal Archief Tilburg.
The morgenboeken (tax records for water management) for Alphen and Ter Aar have been added to Genealogie Rijnland.

Map of Holland (the province). Nicolaas Visscher, 1682 (public domain)

The population registers of Zuilen (1851-1918) are being indexed. Volunteers can report to Het Volk.
The records of the upper consistory of the Holland-German-Israelite congregations are being digitized. [Source: Nationaal Archief]

The website Digitaal Joods Monument [Digital Jewish Monument] has been renewed. The website has a page for every Jewish victim of the Holocaust. See Joodsmonument.nl.

A new law is in the making to allow the Central Archives of Special Jurisdiction to become available online. These records contain information about collaboration during World War II (see the source post). The new law will weigh the interests of potentially living people in the records against the importance of Holocaust research. [Source: Nationaal Archief]
Records of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the free university of Amsterdam, 1879-1972, have been transferred to the Stadsarchief Amsterdam.
The archive map of the Netherlands, which shows the archival institutions for each municipality, is now available via Genealogie Werkbalk.
The records of the Delta Service and its predecessors have been added to Unesco’s Memory of the World register. In the 20th century, the Deltaworks project created a new system of flood protection for the Netherlands. [Source: Zeeuws Archief]

Flood of 1953. Credits: Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst, collection Nationaal Archief (no known copyrights).

The Stadsarchief Amsterdam developed a new handwritten text recognition model for transcribing medieval records. The model, Middeleeuws Amsterdam, is now available via Transkribus. The training data for that model has also been incorporated into a new super model, Dutch Dean. This model can be used to transcribe a wide variety of Dutch documents, rannging from medieval manuscripts to modern printed works.