DATABASE

With regard to the database please take notice of the following remarks:

About the database

• Everyone in the database is related one way or the other, so as a matter of speaking it is one big "Ferwerderadeel family".
• The database is an attempt to help you trace ancestors, descendants, family-links, etc. in the municipality of Ferwerderadeel. In other words: it is a tool and does not pretend to be the one and only truth.
• Just about all the families in Ferwerderadeel who had a surname registered in 1811 - 1812 can be found in the database.
  
• All "Emigrants 1850 - 1888"  and "Emigrants 1889 - 1920" are in the database.
• Most of the "Secessionists" are mentioned in the database.
• An update of the database will be presented frequently.

Sources of the data

• Records on microfiche such as church records before 1811 on baptism-, marriage- and churchmembers as compiled at one time by the FAF.
• Data from the Civil Records such as the ones made available by Tresoar on their website.
• Information received from family, friends and visitors of the website, both in the Netherlands and in North America.
• Websites of genealogists having information that we were missing.

Quality of the data

• Obviously we believe the information that we looked up ourselves, to be correct.
• No doubt that the information received from family, friends and visitors is reliable.
• To our feeling the information that we copied from the Tresoar website and added to the database is correct for at least 99 %.
• Some data (< 0.1 %) was obtained from other websites. It was only copied if relevant and found reliable.
• The relationships between persons born or baptised in the 17th and 18th century are often assumptions based on the method of renaming, patronymics, location, etc. Most of the time we cannot prove these relationships but the " circumstantial evidence" is quite solid.
• You will notice dates mentioned as xx-xx-yyyy (e.g. xx-xx-1750). In these cases the precise date of the event is not known to us. For lack of better a year of - for example - birth was simply determined by subtracting the age at the time of death from the year of death.

Finally: at the end the "Ferwerderadeel family" should have ca. 70,000 members. Your help in sending new information and/or filling in blank spots will be much appreciated.

Sincerely,

                        Stichting Erfskip Terpdoarpen