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There's a Lodewijk de Jonge born in north east Netherlands in 1880 - https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/detail/94595729

That site is only for Netherlands/Dutch colonies as far as I can tell so doesn't preclude Belgium.

Just wanted to add that you should avoid "lossy" image formats like JPEG if you can. If you attempt any sort of image manipulation on your scanned file, it re-codes the image file and every time it does so you lose a little detail.

If you can scan to PNG (common) or TIFF (less common) files and have sufficient capacity on your storage (most will these days), then those formats will retain image integrity if you do any Photoshopping on them.

I'd also second the advice to use a high but not ridiculously high resolution. The higher the resolution, the bigger the file you produce at the end. Generally you get better quality too, but it's a curve of diminishing returns and if you have a lot to do, then higher resolutions take a lot longer.

The other thing I'd say is to practise a fair bit with a few slides to check your workflow. Scanning is an involved process that takes a long time. If you're scanning loads of slides then it's important to iron out any difficulties at the beginning.

(I'm running with the theme now!) Also consider naming conventions for your files. I have a convoluted naming convention for my scans, but you could use a simple one like: date (in YYYYMMDD format), person(s), location, event, separated by semi-colons, e.g.

19680907;Coulson, Andrew; Waters, Ginger; Coulson-Waters wedding; Danbury.PNG

There are also photo organisers you can buy that will attempt to recognise faces and "tag" your photos automagically, but I've personally had limited success with these.

I keep an extensive day to day diary and regularly take advantage of Facebook and Twitter's "download my data" functionality. I take loads of photos. I index everything. If a future genealogist has any interest in me, I've made as much available as I possibly can.

Maybe it's up to us as genealogists to encourage others to do the same?

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Your last paragraph suggests you do not mind paying for access to government records as long as every other taxpayer in the country pays part of the costs, that says a lot about your principles.
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Guy

I'm sure it does. The idea that only those who can afford to pay should be able to access them says a lot about yours. 

I have 5 households on my "priority" list, which I will definitely order = £15.75 with subscriber discount.

I have another 10 or so that I might order = £31.50.

That would be £47.25 to get all the records I might want. An awful lot cheaper for me than travelling to London or Manchester and an awful lot less hassle in the current climate.

The records should be free, but our glorious leaders farm them out to private companies (where else are they doing that I wonder?), so those private companies need to recoup their huge costs. I don't begrudge them one bit.