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Record Description

The collection consists of church records of baptisms, marriages, memberships, deaths and burials. Civil births, marriages, and deaths before the advent of Napoleonic Civil Registration in 1811 are also included. Not all places or denominations are represented. The collection contains many indexes. Most of the records do not go beyond 1811.

The collection covers the years 1527 to 1907.

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Citation for This Collection

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Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst. Netherlands, Zeeland Province, Church Records. Retroakten van de Burgerlijke Stand, Zeeland, Netherlands.

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Record Content, History and Use

• Netherlands, Zeeland Province Church Records
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  Baptism Records

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  Marriage Records

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  Burial Records

For information about the history, content, and use of these records see the wiki article Netherlands Church Records.

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Example for an Indexed Collection:

“Delaware Marriage Records,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 4 March 2011), William Anderson and Elizabeth Baynard Henry, 1890; citing Delaware, State Marriage Records, no. 859, Delaware Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Dover.

Example for a Browsed Collection:

“Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-1981,” images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 28 February, 2012), La Plata > San Ponciano > Matrimonios 1884-1886 > image 71 of 389 images, Artemio Avendano and Clemtina Peralta, 1884; citing Parroquia de San Ponciano en la Plata,Buenos Aires, Argentina, Matrimonios. San Ponciano, La Plata.

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