Flevoland

Genealogy in Flevoland

Main archives

Nieuw Land Erfgoed Centrum (Nieuw Land Heritage Centre), the official provincial archive of Flevoland. They also maintain the municipal archives of Lelystad. Address: Postbus 73, 8200 AB Lelystad, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 320 260 799. E-mail: info@nieuwlanderfgoedcentrum.nl.

Historical societies

As far as I know, there is no provincial historical society. As most of Flevoland is new land (much of it was water a century ago) there are only a few local or regional historical societies.

Online resources

• Wie Was Wie, the national database of genealogy records maintained by the Dutch archives and the Central Bureau for Genealogy.
• Internet resources Flevoland, an index to the available online resources for Flevoland.
• FamilySearch, the website of the LDS (Mormons) also has Flevoland records and scans.

Cemeteries

Please note that Dutch graves are usually rented, and reused after the rental period. Headstones and other monuments are destroyed, and human remains removed and often reburied in an anonymous mass grave.

• Graftombe has indexes of several cemeteries in Flevoland, others will follow. Register to order photos of tombs.
• Online Begraafplaatsen (Online Cemeteries) has images of tombstones of several cemeteries in Flevoland.

Message boards and mailing lists

• Ancestry message board: Flevoland (most messages are in English)

Places in Flevoland

Map of Flevoland

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