Cathymjp
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My friend has asked me if I can try to find out something about her father's origins in Holland. At the moment she is putting down everything she can remember to help me try to find out more. Can anyone please give me some idea of how and where to start looking for Dutch records, as I have never done any research outside the UK
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Cathy 
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jorose
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http://www.genlias.nl/en/page0.jsp
- this is probably a good start.
If the father came to the UK you can also look for records in the UK such as naturalization. The National Archives and the London (Edinburgh/Belfast as appropriate) Gazette are good places to look for immigrants.
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Cathymjp
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Thank you Tina and Jorose for your help and suggestions.
It has given me somewhere to start.
Cathy
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Cathymjp
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On this gentleman's registraton document (Aliens Order 1953) Certificate of Registration, his place of birth is recorded as Dykewoort. I have tried to find this on a search engine but come up with nothing. Does anyone know where this is? On another document, Discharge Certificate from the Netherlands Fighting forces in 1943 issued in Montreal Canada, his place of birth is Amsterdam. Would Dykewoort perhaps be a suburb of Amsterdam?
Cathy
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Dyke = dijk(e)?
woort = voort?
Maybe Dijkvaart? Not exactly a suburb of Amsterdam, though...
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Cathymjp
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Hi Jorose,
Thank you for that pointer. I may have found his father on the Genlias born in Beugen en Rijkevoort - I wonder whether this may be the one. I understand that my friend's father could not read and write in English so it might explain all the discrepancies in the small amount of documentation we have. It could be that his English wife wrote out various bits of information and she would probably have trouble spelling it in Dutch.
It would appear that he did not apply for naturalisation.
It was a bit of a blow to find that there is a 100 year rule on births.
Cathy
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Hi Cathy,
for lots of general information on records in Holland, try the Netherlands page at the FamilySearch Wiki:
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Netherlands
Under Research Tools you will find links to various research strategies;
under Topics there are links to pages on archives, records, names, place names, and, and, and ....
Hope this helps,
Bob
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Hi Berlin Bob,
Thank you for the link. This is a whole new area of research for me - a very good way of learning about other countries in more detail though. 
Cathy
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