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The Northern Database
Past editor and coordinator: Eli Schaap
Current editor: Alex van Oss
Goal
The goal of this project is to reconstruct, as thoroughly as possible,
the Jewish population in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. We
hope
this information will help descendants recover their family history. In
addition, this database will function as a tool for scholars of the
history,
sociology, and demography of the Dutch Jewish community.
Volunteers
Many volunteers participate in the research for this project. Dini
Hansma (Utah, U.S.) documents the actual birth, marriage, and death
certificates, town by town, in the provinces of Groningen, Friesland,
Drenthe, and Overijssel. She works from the microfilms of the Dutch
civil
records (Burgerlijke Stand) assembled at the LDS Center in Salt Lake
City, Utah. She has completed research on the province of Drenthe, and
is still compiling information on the other provinces. Frederieka Zink
is assisting Hansma by entering the data into the computer. Eli Schaap
(New York) has gathered in the past data from various sources to compare
with and supplement Hansma's data. He worked with Jewish
archival data, and genealogies published on the Internet, appearing in
books, or submitted to him by other genealogists. Chaim Caran (Eilat,
Israel), one of the initiators of this project, has been checking and
correcting the data on Friesland. Nicky Huisman (the Netherlands) and
Gerrit
Kornalijnslijper (the Netherlands) contribute data on Jews from the
northeastern region who later moved elsewhere, or vice versa.
