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Netherlands Antilles

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How to call Maarssen Netherlands from Netherlands|

Genlias added new birth records from Curaçao, marriage records from Flevoland, birth, marriage and death records from Limburg, birth and death records from Noord-Brabant, marriage and death records from Noord-Holland, marriage and death records from Utrecht, birth, marriage and death records and church books (baptisms from Brielle) from Zuid-Holland. The National Library of The Netherlands is going to digitize part of its magazine collection. Tresoar digitized and translated (into English) a collection of letters that Dutch immigrants in the U.S.A. sent home. Note: The translations are copyrighted and may not be published without permission of the translator. Ten Dutch heritage institutions cooperated to create a new biography portal (a who's who of Dutch history). Unfortunately the website is only available in Dutch. The Amsterdam city archive is on facebook. The Rotterdam city archive placed more than 300 Rotterdam world war II photos on flickr. For more information see:|

DIGITAL RESOURCES NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM Latest update: 12 September 2010|

Did you know that in the Netherlands they have yearly "4-day-bike-tours" in different parts of the country? For more information see: And here some pictures: International Four Day Marches around Nijmegen, Gelderland, have taken place since 1916. The very first Four Day March was held in 1909. This is very much an international event. Depending on age group and category, walkers have to walk 30, 40 or 50 kilometers (respectively 18.6, 24.8 or 31.0 miles) each day for 4 days. For more information see:|

The Family History Library has general-knowledge encyclopedias from the Netherlands (in Dutch) along with Dutch-English and English-Dutch dictionaries. The encyclopedias and dictionaries are listed in the Family History Library Catalog under THE NETHERLANDS - ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES.|

The capital city of the Netherlands is , but the goverment buildings are located in (The Hague) where the , residence of the reigning , is also located.|

Have you always wanted to know from whom you are descended? Genlias gives you a quick way to find your Dutch forebears, both in the Netherlands and overseas. Your search is in the most accurate source for Dutch genealogy, the Civil Register. And it is not difficult!|

Representatives from Australia and the Netherlands spoke at a ceremony for the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 before a flight departed with their remains from the Kharkiv airport in Ukraine.|

Loppersum Journal; earthquakes caused by extraction of natural gas from soil below Loppersum, Netherlands, have become more frequent, with 18 occurring in first six weeks of 2013, compared with as few as 20 each year before 2011; findings parallel anxiety about hydraulic fracturing in United States and have led to grassroots movement in Netherlands to curtail or stop extractions.|

A list of resources about the Netherlands as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.|

Fourteen-year-old girl in Netherlands may face criminal charges for impersonating a terrorist on Twitter and tweeting terror threat to American Airlines.|

Three-nation investigation leads to one of the biggest seizures of synthetic drugs in Europe, haul of products to create Ecstasy pills with street value of $1.7 billion; after 30 raids in Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland, 11 people are arrested and charged with possession, production and trading in drugs as part of a criminal gang.|

Hunks of wreckage from the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 arrived Tuesday in the Netherlands as the Dutch government rejected a call to hand over the investigation of the disaster.|

Fourteen-year-old girl in Netherlands may face criminal charges for impersonating a terrorist on Twitter and tweeting terror threat to American Airlines.|

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