Looking for ancestors in the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands? You found the right place. Here you can find links to many webpages about families in this area, and to people who do research in this area.
Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity to update this site recently. All the changes that I have received in the mean time will be added shortly. I apologize for the delay.
At the moment, the form to submit new names has been disabled.
Family names ordered by municipality
All family names are ordered by the name of the municipality where they appear. Below you will find a list of all municipalities in the province of Utrecht (situation in 2000), accompanied by a number of villages in these municipalities.
If you can't find the name you're looking for, you can try the other links that are given for that municipality. Often these pages contain more family names from that area than mentioned on this page.
- Abcoude
+ Baambrugge - Amerongen
- Amersfoort
+ Hoogland - Baarn
+ De Lage Vuursche - De Bilt
+ Bilthoven - Breukelen
+ Kockengen, Nieuwer-Ter-Aa, Laagnieuwkoop - Bunnik
+ Odijk, Werkhoven - Bunschoten
+ Spakenburg - Doorn
- Driebergen-Rijsenburg
- Eemnes
- Harmelen
- Houten
+ Schalkwijk, Tull en 't Waal - Leersum
- Leusden
+ Stoutenburg, Achterveld - Loenen
+ Loenersloot, Vreeland, Nigtevecht - Loosdrecht
Oud-Loosdrecht, Nieuw-Loosdrecht - Lopik
+ Benschop, Polsbroek, Jaarsveld, Cabauw, Willige-Langerak - Maarn + Maarsbergen
- Maarssen
+ Tienhoven - Maartensdijk
+ Achtienhoven, Westbroek - Montfoort
+ Linschoten - Nieuwegein
+ Jutphaas, Vreeswijk - Oudewater
+ Willeskop - Renswoude
- Rhenen
- De Ronde Venen
Mijdrecht, Oudhuizen, Vinkeveen, Waverveen, Wilnis - Soest
- Utrecht
+ Zuilen - Veenendaal
- Vianen
- Vleuten-De Meern
Vleuten, De Meern, Oudenrijn - Woerden
+ Zegveld, Kamerik - Woudenberg
- Wijk bij Duurstede
+ Cothen, Langbroek - IJsselstein
- Zeist
+ Austerlitz
All family names are also available in one long list.
Links
These pages are (almost) all in Dutch. In some cases there's also an English version. I will look for better English-language sites in the future.
Sites about Utrecht
- NGV Afdeling Utrecht (Karel Honings) Dutch
- Historische Gemeenteatlas Utrecht -- maps from 1868 (Rob Kuijsten)
- Links to Utrecht genealogies etc. -- look in menu "Homepages" (Ber Hommelberg)
- Utrecht-Genealogy -- an eGroups mailing list
Other Dutch provincial sites
- Genealogie Groningen (Piet en Willeke Molema-Smitshoek) Dutch
- Genealogy yn Fryslân (Andrys Stienstra) Frisian
- Genealogie Drenthe (Piet en Willeke Molema-Smitshoek) Dutch
- Gelderland Page (Gerard Esselink)
- Genealogie in Noord-Holland (Don Arnoldus) Dutch
- ZH-historie (Zuid-Holland) (Henk Berghout) Dutch
- Genealogie Zeeland (Piet en Willeke Molema-Smitshoek) Dutch
- Genealogica Brabantica (Noord-Brabant) (M.J. van den Born)
- Genealogie in Limburg (Eugene Dubois) Dutch
General Dutch sites
- SWINX, de Nederlandse zoeknamenindex (Don Arnoldus) Dutch
- Digitale Bronbewerkingen Nederland en België (Herman de Wit) Dutch
- FAQ Benelux (Hein Vera, Herman de Wit) Dutch
- Archieven in Nederland (Piet en Willeke Molema-Smitshoek) Dutch
- G.G.A.-Nederland, een grote verzameling genealogische links (Henk Berghout) Dutch