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• A Large Dictionary English and Dutch: In Two Parts ... : To which is Added a Grammar, for Both Languages

  By William Sewel.

• Bing Translator

  Enter a URL for a web page or copy & paste a block of plain text to translate: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Klingon, Klingon (pIqaD), Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

• BYU's Script Tutorial - Making Sense of Old Handwriting

  English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Latin.

• Dutch Genealogical Abbreviations

  A list of abbreviations you may come across during your research in the Netherlands.

• Dutch Genealogy - Eight Dutch Naming Patterns to Watch Out For

  Eight different naming patters in use in the Netherlands.

• FamilySearch Wiki - Netherlands Language and Languages

• Frisian-English On-line Dictionary

• GenWiki - TransServ

  Volunteer translators can provide you with translations between Czech, English, Dutch, French, German, & Polish. This service is provided via e-mail. Exact request syntax and length rules must be followed in order to expedite processing.

• Google Translate

  Enter text (copy & paste is easiest, if possible), translate a web page by entering a URL, or upload a document for translation: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.

• Historische Woordenboeken Nederlands en Fries

  Historical dictionaries of Dutch and Frisian, including the medieval variations of these languages.

• IGN Translations

  Dutch & Flemish to English translation of birth, marriage, and death certificates, memoirs, personal documents, etc.

• Nederlandse Familienamenbank / Dutch Family Bank

  The Dutch Family Bank provides information on the surnames in the Netherlands.

  • Dutch Family Names Bank

    Article about the Nederlandse Familienamenbank (Dutch Family Names Bank). By Tamura Jones, Modern Software Experience.

• Nederlandse Voornamenbank / Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands

  • Dutch Given Names Database

    Article about the Nederlandse Voornamen Bank (Dutch Given Names Database), with information on more than half a million Dutch given names. By Tamura Jones, Modern Software Experience.

• Olive Tree Genealogy - Dutch Phrases & Words in Church Records

• Online English to Dutch to English Dictionary

• Paleografie Engels Duits Nederlands (Facebook)

  Transcriptions of old and new handwritten documents. Transkribierung von alte und neue handgeschriebene Dokumenten. Transcriptie van oude en nieuwe handgeschreven documenten.

• TypeIt - Type Accent Marks, Diacritics and Foreign Letters Online - Dutch

• Vertalingen van Latijns naar het Nederlands

  A dictionary for translating Latin genealogical words to the Dutch language.