Hi all, At 09:41 AM 10/22/00 +0100, Roy Day wrote: > >Have you for example consulted the "Leiden Collection". This is a card >index of such people and is available on film through the LDS. It covers >the period 1500 - 1828 and the appropriate film number can be found by >entering Leiden as the place and then church indexes. There are 10 printed >pages of film references. snip I hope Roy will correct me if I am wrong, but I get the impression from Gwenn Epperson's books, New Netherland Roots, that the Leiden Collection includes records of Walloons from other locations in addition to Leiden. Eg. it includes some records from Mannheim. Also, just to see if I've found the right microfilms, do the LDS film nos for this collection run from 0,199,755 thru 0,199,952? (I have not yet used this collection.) Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com

Howard is quite right in stating that the Leiden Collection contains wide ranging information. The original is described as a card index of Huguenots in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and elsewhere. The fact that it takes 199 reels of LDS film would indicate that it is a very large collection. Roy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Swain" <hswain@ix.netcom.com> To: <> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 10:16 PM Subject: [HWE] Re: German (and other) Research Suggestions | I hope Roy will correct me if I am wrong, but I get the impression | from Gwenn Epperson's books, New Netherland Roots, that the Leiden | Collection includes records of Walloons from other locations in | addition to Leiden. Eg. it includes some records from Mannheim. | | Also, just to see if I've found the right microfilms, do the LDS | film nos for this collection run from 0,199,755 thru 0,199,952? | | (I have not yet used this collection.) | | Regards, | Howard | hswain@ix.netcom.com |

Dear Listers, I was recently at the Leiden Municipal Archives, home of the "Leiden Collection." There is tons of information there. Lots of the original documents at those archives have been meticulously indexed on card files and in books. I suppose the 199 reels of LDS film have most, if not all, of those indexes (but not the original records themselves). I really thought the indexes for the city death records were interesting. Those indexes are in books, not on cards. I suppose the LDS filmed them, but I don't know. They are also very generous with letting people use the original records. I was able to look through the 1663 gravebook for the Pieterskerk (Pieters Church). It's in practically mint condition. I'm not sure how they keep the records in such great shape. Anyway, I posted some information about the Leiden Municipal Archives and the results of my research (on Bodines) at my Bodine site. The address, telephone, and email addresses are there. I also have pictures of the Pieterskerk (where the pilgrims once worshipped) and Hooglandskerk (churches) in Leiden. If you're interested, take a look at the following url: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bodine/leiden00.htm Best regards, Dave Bodine -- Dave@MediterraneanAccents.com Roy Day wrote: > Howard is quite right in stating that the Leiden Collection contains wide > ranging information. The original is described as a card index of Huguenots > in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and elsewhere. > > The fact that it takes 199 reels of LDS film would indicate that it is a very > large collection. > > Roy