GO924: Dutch Marriage and Family Life Histories, 1600-1999

Marriages conducted in the Netherlands between 1600 and 1999, with anonymized records for spouses, their parents, and children. The dataset is derived from 924 genealogical files contributed by users of genealogieonline.nl, error-checked and combined into the GO 924 set. It includes lifespans, marriage ages, and location data for births, marriages, and deaths.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical marriage age trends based on the marriage ages of spouses mentioned in the description.
• Study urban-rural migration patterns based on location data for births, marriages, and deaths.
• Model intergenerational lifespan correlations based on lifespan data for spouses, their parents, and children.
• Investigate historical fertility and child mortality based on information on births and deaths of children.

Strengths

• Covers a 400-year time span from 1600 to 1999.
• Derived from 924 genealogical files after error-checking with the TreeChecker application.
• Includes multi-generational data on spouses, their parents, and children.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect bias inherent to user-contributed genealogical records.

Provenance

Source

Genealogical database constructed from family tree files contributed by users of genealogieonline.nl.

Collection Method

User-contributed GEDCOM files were error-checked and combined into a single database.

Time Range

1600-1999

Geography

Netherlands