You may encounter the Dutch word rol (role) in two ways in genealogy:
- In archival descriptions of records, a rol is a list, for examples of all the cases the court heard that year.
- In genealogical search forms, rol indicates the role of the person you are searching for in the record. For example, searching for a person with the role bruidegom (groom) will only find results where the search terms apply to someone indexed as a groom.
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Roll of court cases