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Amsterdam pre-1811 burial records online
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Photograph Wikimedia Commons
If you are searching for Dutch ancestors from Amsterdam in the period before 1811, you are lucky! The Amsterdam archives have recently put the indexes to most of their burial records online.
This means that about 50,000 scans have been added to their database making 1,1 million names digitally searchable from that period.
These records have not been added yet to Genlias so if you wish to have a look at them you should go directly to the website of the Amsterdam archives.
New Fascinating Exposition Of Early Amsterdam Photographs
Monday, March 29th, 2010Video courtesy of the Dutch news site www.nu.nl
If you happen to be in Amsterdam somewhere between April 2 and July 27 2010, you should certainly not miss the new exposition by the Amsterdam City Archives:”Amsterdam 1845–1875, The First Photographs”. The exposition brings together a unique collection of the earliest pictures of Amsterdam. As a bonus you also get an insight in the photographic techniques used at the time.
To promote the exposition, the archive has set out a city walk through the center of Amsterdam. Along the tour you can find fifteen big photographs by Benjamin Brecknell Turner from 1875 placed at the exact same spot as where the picture was taken. This gives you the rare opportunity to compare the past and present face of this fascinating city.
You do not even have to physically go to Amsterdam. You can also follow the virtual tour that includes both the old picture as a recent one for every spot along the tour. Unfortunately the comments are only available in Dutch, but actually you do not really need them to enjoy the tour (an image says more than a thousand words).
If you are planning on visiting the real thing, this exhibition program will come in handy.
Have fun!
