Netherlands, Zeeland Province, Civil Registration - FamilySearch Historical Records/Known Issues

Question 1
Question 1: Why do some record sets include records of a type other than that described in the set title; i.e., births, deaths, marriages, and divorces may be mixed together? Answer 1: The original records are of mixed type. Birth, marriage and death records are in one book, and in some cases, more than one record type is found on the same page. Not much can be done to resolve that, so the collection was organized with three sets of the same images in numerical order. One set for births, one for deaths and one for marriages. The resulting combination of record sets usually appear alphabetically by type, e.g., Geboorten records appear first, followed by Huwelijken, Overlijden, etc.

Question 2
Question 2: Misplaced records; where can they be found? Answer 2: See answers below. If records are available on film, they can be viewed at the Family History Library or some FamilySearch Centers. Call ahead to check if the film is available at your local center.


 * Zierikzee Overlijden 1854 – contains a few huwelijken (marriages) from 1890 for Zoutelande
 * Zierikzee Geboorten 1894 contains a few geboorten (births) for Zoutelande from 1827

Question 3
Question 3: The following records are missing. Are they available? Answer 3: See answers below. If records are available on film, they can be viewed at the Family History Library or some FamilySearch Centers. Call ahead to check if the film is available at your local center.


 * Axel &gt; Overlijden 1883-1912, records18-21 are missing following image 204
 * Nieuwerkerk Huwelijkenbijlagen 1811-1907 is missing year 1837.
 * Ovezande Overlijden 1811-1842: Death entries #8-13, from 17 March to 21 November 1829, are missing on both the digitized record and on the original microfilm 122646.

Question 4
Question 4: Are any records out of order? Answer 4: In the Groede &gt; Geboorten 1796-1812 record set the 7th year of the Republic (image 109) appears between the 8th year (image 51) and the 9th year (image 143).

Question 5
Question 5: At the waypoint Bruinisse &gt; Huwelijksbijlagen 1836-1910, the records jump from 1842 to 1883 between images 612 and 613. Where are the records from 1842-1883? Answer 5: Currently, these records are not available. The browse path is incorrectly labeled. There are records from 1836 to 1842 and 1883 to 1910


 * Go to the Netherlands, Zeeland Province, Civil Registration - FamilySearch Historical Records wiki article
 * Goto the Netherlands, Zeeland Province, Civil Registration, 1796-1940 collection at FamilySearch.org