Google Street View has been all over the Netherlands, so you can use this service to make a virtual visit to your ancestor’s home town. To use Google Street View, look up the address or name of the town in Google Maps and then click “Street view” or drag the yellow man unto the map.
The Huitink farm in Winterswijk, that gave my family its name. Credits: Google Streetview
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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Love your posts on Facebook! Is the old Dunnewold house still standing? I don’t know street address. Please post a picture if it is still there. My ancestors are Dunnewold and Legters. Thanks again for this great work you are doing.
I’ve noticed that many addresses have changed their house numbers and names. For example, my great grandfather born at Heerenstraat, 1168 (Utrecht) in 1878, but after 1880 census this house’s number had changed to 33. Is there any website to help in those changes?
Thank you.
No, it differs from city to city. In most places, there are no conversion tables. You will have to compare neighbors between different ledgers to see if the house is the same with a different number, or if the people movedl. In other cities, like Breda, archivists or volunteers made conversion tables that will help you convert an address in one ledger to another.
I am tracing my husband’s family. I can’t believe this information is accurate, but when I got as far as 1175, to Alexander Arnaud Bozon de Kerketon, the birth locations change from Lincolnshire, England, to “Holland” – or “Netherlands.” Just before the end of the line, Margaria deBozon’s, place of birth is Reusel-de Mierden Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. I am using Ancestry.com. Where did they find this information? Maybe I am foolish to think the Whartons can be traced to the 12th century.
This is due to an error made by Ancestry.com. Yvette wrote an article about it: https://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/ancestors-in-reusel-de-mierden-noord-brabant/