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Hi I am Solomon's great great grandaughter. My grandmother Lilian Hart told me that his original surname was Hartzen or maybe Hertzen.
Hi,
I landed on this topic out of curiosity. I don't have Dutch roots but did have trouble discovering my Hanovarian roots on mainland Europe.
As you now know the surname, have you enquired whether there are any legal documents in the Amsterdam "Notarial Records" to see if there is mention of the family? As described about a third of the way down in this document
http://files.lib.byu.edu/family-history-library/research-outlines/Europe/Netherlands.pdf"Notarial records often do not contain their own indexes. Fortunately, the Dutch archives are
indexing the notarial records. Always check for the existence of indexes before using the records. Large towns had several notaries at one time. Cumulative indexes for these places will save you an enormous amount of time. For example, such indexes have been created for Amsterdam, Breda, Dordrecht, Haarlem, ’s-Gravenhage, Rotterdam, and Utrecht.
While you will find all kinds of legal documents in notarial records, the most useful for genealogical
research include:
• Wills [testamenten]
• Marriage contracts [huwelijksvoorwaarden].
• Divisions of estates [boedelscheidingen or akten van scheiding en deling]. "
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