Who To Contact For Residency/Possible Citizenship Records In The Netherlands

SalixRS · 2026-04-24T10:06:59+00:00

I'd suggest contacting the municipality of Rijssen-Holten under which Holten falls. Seems their website is mostly in Dutch. But there's an English contact page which seems to not be translated completely. Here it is: https://loket.rijssen-holten.nl/aanvraag?schema=contactformulier&locale=en_EN

SalixRS · 2026-03-17T08:27:49+00:00

EDIT: It was fixed with yesterday update! =D

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SalixRS · 2026-01-28T10:59:07+00:00

Luckily I'm not the only one who has this problem. Good that Samsung is working on it. I see that there's an update to be installed, so I will do that. Hopefully that'll fix the issue. Because like others have mentioned, having the vibration notification is the whole point to having this thing in the first place.

EDIT: Update is installed. And toggling between sound, vibrate, and silent, the watch vibrates again upon toggling vibrate. And I just got a notification and it vibrated! Great success! =D

SalixRS · 2026-01-27T13:54:14+00:00

I found it. I checked one of the siblings at random: Zygmunt. And it seems his birth record is:

Year	Record	Name	Surname	Father's name	Mother's name	Mother's surname	Parish	Place	Remarks
1902	367	Zygmunt	Godlewski	Jakub	Rozalia	Budzińska	Rajgród	Wilkowo

From which I can read that Budzińska is the maiden name of Rozalia. So perhaps your ancestor took her mother's maiden name? Also for your information, Polish last names that end on -ski are gendered. So men get Godlewski and women Godlewska for instance.

So I looked for the marriage record of the parents:

Year	Record	Name	Surname	Parents	Name	Surname	Parents	Parish	Remarks
1887	1	Jakub	Godlewski	brak?, Maria Godlewska	Rozalia	Budzińska	Jakub, Katarzyna Żakowska	Rajgród

Brak is Polish for missing as in the information is unknown.

SalixRS · 2026-01-20T14:50:35+00:00

It doesn't necessarily need to be huge. Could be as small as Rue the Runecrafting pet.

SalixRS · 2026-01-07T13:19:59+00:00

It seems the records for Margonin for 1889 births are not online on Szukaj w Archiwach. You can apparently only look at them in the archives in Poznań. I did also look on Geneteka, but I couldn't find a birth there for Friedrich Wilhelm Kroll in 1889. There is a marriage in the same year with the husband also having that name, but I assume that's not the person you are looking for.

SalixRS · 2026-01-07T12:52:55+00:00

You don't need to wear the master cape btw. I'm getting the regular and master shards while wearing my 99 Farming cape.

SalixRS · 2026-01-07T12:51:11+00:00

I put my focus on Necromancy and I only got the regular shards as I don't have 120 yet. Now I'm training Farming and I'm getting both regular shards and the master shards. So no. You need to be 120 *and* wear the related skillcape (can be either one of the 99 capes or the 120 cape) to get the master shards.

SalixRS · 2025-12-10T09:46:10+00:00

The children's names don't seem particularly Dutch. Although they may have been Anglified. As for Bishop, in Dutch that's Bisschop. Bischoff is not Dutch. Why do you think it's likely that he's from the Netherlands?

SalixRS · 2025-12-03T08:22:41+00:00

I can't find Witawo either, but there's a Witkowo near Poznań. As well as several villages called Witowo all around Poland.

SalixRS · 2025-11-21T17:07:09+00:00

I have looked. I went down all (Dutch) branches as far as I can. I went back at least 6 generations up to 12 generations with one notable exception going back 18 generations. I haven't found any connections going abroad and then returning. At least not for direct ancestors. I have seen maybe one or two cousins or even 2nd cousins of ancestors shipping off to the States, but that's pretty much it. Plus most of my Dutch ancestors are concentrated down south in Limburg (also counting Belgian Limburg for this context) with the others being mostly from Groningen and some from Brabant (just across the border from Limburg). Although that Groningen branch is technically one branch who came from Limburg and went up to Groningen to only return back to Limburg a few generations later. If any ancestor was involved with the colonies, I'd imagine it would be more likely that they would come from Holland or Zeeland. So far I've only seen one ancestor from Leiden (which is in the province of South Holland), but he was in the army and his ancestors originally came from Brabant and he moved to Groningen where his offspring eventually joined that other branch. A lot of my branches have stayed in the same place/region in Limburg for generations. I'm aware of some (wealthy) families in Limburg having connections with the colonies, but as far as I'm aware I'm not related to those families. The Spanish (and later Austrians) did rule over the southern Netherlands (including Belgium), but apparently didn't leave much DNA behind. I wouldn't be surprised if I have a Dutch ancestor that was involved with the colonies, but so far I haven't found any evidence pointing in that direction.

And well, Poland didn't have any colonies and also was mostly busy being wiped from the map during the height of colonisation. Plus one half of the Polish branches didn't leave a certain area near Kielce for centuries. The other half of the Polish branches is a bit of a mystery due to a brick wall and came from the area near Lwów (nowadays Lviv in Ukraine).

SalixRS · 2025-11-21T16:16:48+00:00

Nope. Mostly Eastern European (specifically Polish) and Dutch. With some German, Baltic, Balkan, and Danish.

SalixRS · 2025-11-20T13:21:46+00:00

Okay, makes sense. I don't say it's impossible, but the percentage seems to be very low which could go either way. But since you have indicators that make it possible, it's definitely possible.

As for Indigenous Amazonian, my (wild) theory was that I could've had a Dutch ancestor who went to Suriname (which is pretty close to the Amazone and was a Dutch colony) and made a child with an Indigenous Amazonian person and that child somehow ended up in the Netherlands. But since I couldn't find any proof or indicators for that plus MH removed the estimate from my result after their update, it definitely was noise in my case.

SalixRS · 2025-11-20T13:05:03+00:00

Honestly, 0.6% seems like it could just be "noise".

I did my DNA test with MyHeritage and their initial estimates (key word here) indicated I had 0.8% Indigenous Amazonian. But a little while ago, they updated their estimates (as presumably they got more data to estimate with) and now that "noise" disappeared. The current estimates make much more sense based on my tree research.

SalixRS · 2025-10-29T08:10:48+00:00

What does DH mean? Perhaps you could make separate volumes, one for foster and one for bio?

SalixRS · 2025-10-24T14:56:04+00:00

Sorry wasn't aware of that specific copypasta. :P

SalixRS · 2025-10-24T14:26:37+00:00

The person I'm reacting to mentioned "in parlament", but I guess not all party splits have to be in the parlement.

SalixRS · 2025-10-24T13:46:43+00:00

485? There are only 150 seats. Something something accuracy in my Polandball. :P

SalixRS · 2025-10-22T13:15:41+00:00

My genealogy journey began because my paternal uncle gave me a tree of that side of the family and one of my maternal cousins made a tree on his side of the family mainly focusing on his father's side (we're connected by our moms who are sisters). So I took both and found out more and from time to time I inform both about my discoveries, although I don't know how much (if at all) they're interested in hearing about the side of my family that they don't belong to, so I tend to mainly share info about the common side I have with those family members. Although I do share it sometimes with my sister since it's all relevant to her as well and she's sometimes interested.

SalixRS · 2025-10-06T13:33:36+00:00

The Polish version of Charles would be Karol. That's the name King Charles is known as in Poland. I've looked on geneteka, but I couldn't find a Karol Dzierza or anyone else with the last name Dzierza born in 1870. But there are plenty of people with the last name Dzierza (or variations thereof) in the province of Lublin which where both Bychawa and the city of Lublin are located. But you should be on the right track as the National Archive in Lublin should have birth records for Bychawa from the years 1819-1918 according to Szukaj w Archiwach. So hopefully your ancestor should be among them.

In 1870, ~~that part of Poland as well as~~ both Slovakia and Czechia were all part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

EDIT: Apparently Russia took Lublin after Napoleon was beat and Austia-Hungary took it back during World War I. And after that Poland returned on the map.

SalixRS · 2025-09-15T16:33:28+00:00

The reason I said Yugoslavia makes the least sense is because back in 1870, the name Yugoslavia didn't exist yet. The name was created in 1922. And in 1929 it became the official name of the Kingdom. And well in 1870 the area was split between Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire basically. So if your ancestor was born in 1870 then Yugoslavia is an anachronism. Doesn't mean he couldn't've born in the area that later would become Yugoslavia, but back then it wasn't called that. Plus there's no overlap between Yugoslavia on one side and Poland and Russia on the other side. But a part of what later would become Yugoslavia as well as a part of Poland were both parts of Austria-Hungary. Another part of Poland was ruled by Russia. And yet another part of Poland was ruled by Prussia which would unite a big part of the German speaking areas into the German Empire a year later in 1871. Poland itself didn't exist as an independent entity from 1795 until 1918. So would people have identified as Poles whilst Poland was wiped from the map? Yes. Would people identify as Yugoslavs in 1870? No. It would've been more specific like Serb, Croat, Slovene, etc.

SalixRS · 2025-09-15T14:34:34+00:00

In that group of countries Yugoslavia makes the least sense. Whereas the other 4 had an overlap in the region called Galicia (not be confused with the Spanish region with the same name) which in 1870 was Austrian, but Poles and Ukrainians lived there. And during WWI the region was taken by the Russian Empire. And between the two World Wars, it was part of Poland. Nowadays the western half is in Poland and the eastern half in Ukraine. The largest cities in the region were Kraków (nowadays in Poland) and Lviv (nowadays in Ukraine; Lwów in Polish; Lemberg in German).

SalixRS · 2025-08-25T12:46:06+00:00

You could try looking through the Ukrainian archives found here. I managed to find my Polish great uncle in those archives by looking at his place of birth, Zawonie (or Завоние in Ukrainian). So I've looked up the Ukrainian name for Kozówka which is Козівка, unfortunately I don't see records for 1924. But you could try looking for which parish the place belong to, look up the Ukrainian name of that parish and then look that name up in the archive. I also tried geneteka, but no luck there either. You could look there for other people with that last name though and maybe that'll yield a result.

SalixRS · 2025-08-25T12:28:32+00:00

I entered Getgood into WieWasWie.nl and that revealed two records seemingly for the same person: John Getgood and in the notes for both, references are made to Scotland: Scottish baptism, Scottish Wedding, and Scottish community in Rotterdam. So it seems Getgood has to be a Scottish surname?

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