If you want to find family information you will need some information about your ancestors. Name, date of birth, place of birth, date of emigration and information concerning the religious believes of the emigrated person will help you to find specific information.
Ways to find information on your emigrated Dutch ancestors:
Searching e-mail databases makes it possible to find relatives. You can use the addresses to contact (living) relatives that might be able to tell you something about the history of the family or help you with your search by doing some research at the local archives abroad. Our experience about email contact with relatives is that most of them are very enthusiastic when they are being contacted by a long lost relative. Most people are interested in their roots.
Websites where you can find e-mail adresses:
Search Engines
You can find interesting pages using the search engines, (Hotbot, Alta-Vista, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Jahoo etc.) You can search for your name, maps historical information etc. Their are also genealogical search engines. You can mostly find them on the popular genealogical sites. On these sites you can access the so called 'surname search engines'.
What you should know before you start searching:
Searchable Dutch surnamelists (per province):
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By searching the world wide web for relevant documents you will mostly learn more about your emigrated ancestors and emigration. There is a lot of information accessible about emigration on the internet. You can find information about the arrival of emigrants on 'Ellis Island' or locate ships passengers lists, find historical information about emigrants etc.
We have a seperate page about Ship Passenger Lists!
Interesting emigration links:
Emigration sites in the Netherlands:
You can place your quests with specific information about a relative that you are looking for in newsgroups or the so called 'bulletin boards'. If you know where your ancestors settled down you can place an adequate quest on the bulletin board of the local genealogical society.
HINT:
By using a search engine and typing: 'genealogical query' you will find the addresses of sites that have the option for placing a quest.
Hollandnet also has a 'prikbord' for placing quests: The Emigration Query Forum.
Other 'prikbord' sites:
