Civil registration certificates are now linked to other certificates. With LINKS you can build up your family tree in the civil registration period much easier and faster. And it provides you LINKS that aren't easy to find with manual searches.
Most of the marriage certificates now show you direct links on the right-hand side of the screen. These link directly to the marriage certificates of the parents of the bride and the parents of the groom, and also the marriage certificates of the children of the wedding couple. These links are sorted by date. The quality of the link is indicated with +, ++ or +++, where +++ indicates a link of the highest quality. Most links have this quality.
Examples
An interesting example is this marriage certificate from 1827, that links to the marriage certificate of the parents of the groom, where the names of both parents are spelled differently. Or this certificate from 1837, that links to 4 certificates of the children with the names of the parents spelled differently.
What is LINKS?
LINKS is an abbreviation of “Linking system for historical family reconstruction”. It aims at reconstructing all nineteenth and early twentieth century families in the Netherlands. LINKS is a cooperation project between the International Institute of Social History and CBG| Centre for Family History.
The reconstruction of the Dutch population is based on the civil registration index of WieWasWie. This index contains not only the names of the persons that were born, deceased or married, but also the names of their parents, places of birth, ages and sometimes their professions. The parents can be linked again to their own certificates, making it possible to create links to all persons. Also the availability of professions in this index is extremely important for scientific research.
More information about the origin and the linking process of LINKS can be found in the following article in Gen.magazine from 2014. However, this is in Dutch only.
