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About Yvette Hoitink
Hello Yvette, are there records when children have been placed in pleeggezinnen? bvbd. van Assen naar Valburg 1890/Jeltje Kommer (child of our overgrootmoeder Elisabeth Kommer). Do you think children have been registered in the town? thank you! Anita
Hi Anita,
I have received a variation of this question so often that I will put this on my list of articles to write. The short answer is that children placed in foster care should be listed with their foster families in the population registers (bevolkingsregisters). If it was an official placement, and not just an informal arrangement, there may also be juvenile court records about the case. These can be found at the provincial archives. You can only access these records if they are more than 100 years old, like in your situation.
bedankt, Yvette!
These children can be found in “Voogdijregisters.” See my article about guardianship records.
And be sure to look for all the siblings. The parents may be living when one child is married and dead by the next. Or, the birth record of one child may identify one of the witnesses as uncle or something. Lots of clues to more connections.
Als iemand trouwt, terwijl zijn ouders reeds zijn overleden, dan behoren er extracten van de overlijdensakten in de huwelijkse bijlagen te zitten.
Van het echtpaar zitten er eveneens extracten van hun geboorteakten in de huwelijkse bijlagen. Al zijn die minder relevant omdat de geboorteplaats en leeftijd over het algemeen al wordt vermeld in de huwelijksakte, zodat het opzoeken van de geboorteakten over het algemeen niet al te moeilijk is.
Met beide gegevens heb ik regelmatig mijn voordeel gedaan. Het bevolkingsregister kwam pas omstreeks 1850 en de indexen op internet zijn niet altijd volledig,