Quick tip – New website Amsterdam City Archives

8 January 2020 by 2 Comments

The Amsterdam City Archives is changing the part of their website to search the finding aids, indexes, and image bank.

One great new feature is that the indexes search function now searches all indexes at once. You can use * as a wildcard to search for spelling variations like Jans* for Jans, Jansen, Janszen, and Janssen.

The new image viewer no longer requires Flash, which used to cause problems on many systems. Another improvement is that the website is now mobile-friendly.

The migration to the new system is not complete yet:

  • Some finding aids are offline
  • Some finding aids may be missing scans.
  • Not all indexes have been migrated.
  • Some permalinks or deep links don’t work yet.

The migration should be finished by the end of January.

 

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Yvette Hoitink, MLitt, CG®, QG™ is a professional genealogist, writer, and lecturer in the Netherlands. She has a Master of Letters in Family and Local History from the University of Dundee, and holds the Certification of Genealogist and Qualified Genealogist credentials. Yvette served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Genealogists and won excellence awards for her articles in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. Yvette has been doing genealogy for over 30 years. She helps people from across the world find their ancestors from the Netherlands and its former colonies, including New Netherland. Read about Yvette's professional genealogy services.

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  1. Kevin Martin says
    10 January 2020 at 4:32 pm

    Hi Yvette perhaps you can help, the records for the Portuguese Synagogue are no longer on the site do you know if these are due to be transferred thanks

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