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Bergen County

(Mostly) Obituaries of Hollanders in Bergen County

Cornelia Wissekerke

I am involved with Genealogical Society of Bergen County, and we are doing an indexing project of one of the local papers, the Hackensack Republican. We index all mentions of births, marriages, engagements, and deaths, as well as birthdays, anniversaries, and funerals. In the meantime you get to read a …

An Unrecorded Deed

As an introduction: I am a member of the Genealogical Society of Bergen County, and we are indexing the birth, death and marriage announcements in the Hackensack Republican,” one of the local papers. While looking through the newspaper during my indexing session, I noticed the following news item in the issue …

Bergen County Obituaries

While I was providing obituary  look-ups for the Genealogical Society of Bergen County, I would come across many people who had, like me, immigrated from the Netherlands. I started collecting the obituaries, and posting them to the web. Eventually I developed a small database, and did some additional research to …