Familysearch has three free videos that teach you the basics about reading Dutch handwriting:
Teacher. Credits: Spaarnestad Photo.
About Yvette HoitinkYvette 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.
Yvette Hoitink, MLitt, CG®, QG™ is a professional genealogist, writer, and lecturer from the Netherlands who helps people find their ancestors from the Netherlands and its former colonies, including New Netherland. She has a Master of Letters in Family and Local History from the University of Dundee, and holds the Certified Genealogist and Qualified Genealogist credentials.
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This Dutch Genealogy webinar gives you a great introduction to researching your Dutch ancestors. Requires a Legacy FamilyTreeWebinar subscription to watch. [Affiliate link]
Thanks so much for posting these links. The information and particularly the examples are invaluable in reading Dutch BMD documents. I wish I had seen this a few weeks ago when, after reading your blog for the first time, I was encouraged to start examining these documents. I would have saved a lot of time and gnashing of teeth. I wish that someone would direct me to a comprehensive list of Dutch words and *phrases* contained in these documents. I realize there are many list around on the Internet but they are mostly incomplete and contain single words only. Since, I suspect, a lot of terms and phrases in these documents are archaic and legalese, Internet Dutch-to-English translators are of limited use.