Explanation
 
General
Particularly when searching in databases dating back from before 1811, users are advised to use the standardised names from the names thesaurus. Use the place-name database to locate the Frisian towns and cities.

• Click here for an explanation to genealogical research in Tresoar

Start your search by entering a name or a combination of names, or enter at least the first two letters followed by an asterisk (*). It is possible to combine the name with the name of the municipality and/or a year.

• Help for search in genealogical databases

Updating database:
Internet files are usually not updated immediately after every change, but after a large number of changes.

• Baptisms: The latest update was made on 21-06-2011.
  Look here for an overview of the changed data. Monitor the contents of the database and the checking progress in one of the following PDF files.
• Marriages: The latest update was made on 19-07-2011. 
  Marriages dating from before 1811 are basically complete. Small corrections to the database are made from time to time.
  Look here for an overview of the changed data.
• Burials: The latest update was made on 23-8-2011.
  Look here for an overview of the changed data.
  Monitor the contents of the database and the checking progress in one of the following PDF files.
• Lidmaten: The latest update was made on 3-6-2012

Baptisms
In view of increased public demand for baptism details from the DTB period (before 1812) entered by the FAF/VAF, we have decided to make this information available in digital form, with certain reservations.
As a provisional version, the file may contain typing errors and structural imperfections. Also the names thesaurus works only partially, since first names and patronymics have not (or incorrectly) been entered, etc.
As a result of (well-intentioned) family reconstructions, some of the volunteers have entered additional names that are not part of the deeds. That is neither necessarily correct nor incorrect.

• abbreviations in the baptism announcements
• errors in or questions about the baptism database

Marriages
Details in the marriages before 1812 database come from both ecclesiastical and judicial sources.

• Marriages in the DTB (explanation)

Burials
This database contains information on deaths and burials from various sources, such as 'burial books', 'registers of deceased persons', 'registers of impost on burials', diaconate account books, etc. All such details have been combined into one database, briefly called 'Burials'.
The comment made under baptisms also goes for the 'Burials' database. This database is also not yet complete and correct. The thesaurus link is also far from perfect.
N.B.: The burials databases may occasionally contain details from 1812 and later. The Seerijp churchyard on the isle of Terschelling even quotes a burial from 1911!

• more explanation on the sources of the burials database
• errors in or questions about the burials database
• Overview burial files : Current position in terms of publicising burials prior to 1812 (PDF)

Lidmaten
In deze database vindt u gegevens over de registratie van lidmaten bij plaatselijke gemeenten van de Nederduitsche Gereformeerde (sinds 1816: Nederlandse Hervormde) Kerk en de Doopsgezinde Broederschap vanaf eind 16de eeuw tot omstreeks 1850. In het algemeen gaat het om aantekening van belijdenis en inschrijving van attestaties (bij verhuizing), maar sommige predikanten noteerden meer gegevens, zoals overlijden en plaatsing onder kerkelijke tucht.
De database is samengesteld uit tekstbestanden die zijn vervaardigd door de FAF. Wellicht kent u ze als de 'lidmatenklappers' die al geruime tijd op de studiezaal van Tresoar staan.

• Zie de uitgebreide toelichting voor meer informatie

* Van de regio's met een * zijn nog geen data uit de lidmatenregisters aanwezig.