We research your family tree in the archives and build your own site from it, just for your family. Every fact gets a label and a source. From € 299.
Dutch city, regional and provincial archives, the National Archives and commercial websites: each one works differently, and none of them connect. And the records are in Dutch, often in old handwriting.
Much of it was typed in by hand, without a record to back it up. For us, anything without a source counts as not proven.
Archives warn about this themselves. We only show what we can point to in a record, register or newspaper, with a scan.
You know in advance what you get. The intake tells you, for each line, how far back we are likely to get.
Names, years and places of your grandparents. If you already have a family tree, upload the GEDCOM file. You see right away which package fits.
We read civil records, registers, newspapers and graves. Every fact gets a label and a source, with the scan.
Tree, timeline, map and relationships, behind a PIN code. Your family can look at it too and answer questions.
Each generation has twice as many ancestors as the one before. That is why the work, and the price, grows with every step back.
This is how it doubles: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 people per generation. The bars show how far back each package searches.
You provide the details, we build the site.
We trace your ancestors in indexes and records.
Plus newspapers, graves and a short chronicle.
Plus church books and a full chronicle.
As many generations as we can prove, up to 12, with a full chronicle.
All prices are in euros and include 21% VAT. Do you want to go further back than 7 generations? Choose As far as possible, up to 12 generations. Further than 12: we make a quote. Lines outside the Netherlands are possible too; how far we get depends on what you can give us and which sources exist. You can always upgrade: you pay the difference with the next package.
Not a closed booklet that nobody opens again. Your own site behind a PIN code, where your whole family can look and add what they know, ten years from now as well.
The example site is in Dutch, with a made-up family: Verhoeven. Everything in it is made up, including the civil record, the newspaper clipping and the prayer card.
A person page: every fact has a label and a source.
Screenshots of the example site, which is in Dutch. Click a picture to open that page yourself.
The treeTap someone to put them in the centre. The lines show how certain a link is.
The mapWhere your ancestors were born and where they died, at a glance.
The chronicleA story for each family, with the records that were used in it.
Newspaper clippings and recordsWhat we find, we keep as an image, with its source and with the right person.
On your phone tooThe site adapts to the screen. Your family opens it on any device, with a PIN code.
Three examples from the made-up Verhoeven family. This is what a story on your site looks like.
Leendert de Groot died on 1 February 1953 in Zierikzee. Four years later his sister married a textile worker from Tilburg, and that is how the family ended up in Brabant.
Jan Mulder from Zaandam only appears in the tree of a distant cousin, without a source. On the site he gets the label "not proven", with a task: find his marriage.
Hendrikus Verhoeven was born in 1808, before civil registration began. That is why he was found in the baptism register and not in a civil record. The site says so.
In our own research, a third of 127 questions were solved, 40% partly and 27% not.
In the intake, each grandparent line gets an expectation. So you choose a package that fits, and nothing comes as a surprise.
Only people with the PIN code. You decide who gets it. We only show details of living people if you say that is okay.
Upload it as a GEDCOM file. Everything without a source gets the label not proven, until we see the record.
From one week for Start to eight weeks for Family Tree. The exact time is listed with your package.
Your site stays online until the end of the paid period. You get a message in advance and a zip with everything. After that we take it down.
Yes. Your photos and details stay yours. We do not use them for other trees without your permission.
You choose in the intake: Dutch or English. Both is possible for 100 euros extra. The chronicle and the menus of the site are then in that language.
I am Harry Stuurman. I have done more than 25 in-depth family history studies and built a website of its own for each of them. My research runs from Leiden and Suriname to Curaçao, Germany, Belgium and New Zealand.
Everything I find gets a label and a source. What is proven, I show with the record next to it. What is a suspicion, I call a suspicion. That way you and your family know exactly what you can build on.
Want to see what such a site looks like? Open the example site and click around. See the example site
Questions first? Put them in the intake form; you will get an answer by email.