Heritage Lommel provides access to parish registers
Heritage Lommel is a volunteer association that, together with the City of Lommel (Lommel is a place and a city in the Belgian province of Limburg, close to the Dutch border) to collect, preserve, study and open up the Lommel heritage. One of the sources that has been opened up are the parish registers of Lommel, which are partly located at the archives of the City of Lommel and partly at the State Archives of Belgium (Hasselt). The parish registers are also linked to scans on the FamilySearch website by Erfgoed Lommel.
 Baptisms, Burials, Marriages from the archive of Stad Lommel
 Baptisms from the State Archives of Belgium (Hasselt)
 Reconstruction of funeral register by Erfgoed Lommel
Surinamese slave registers accessible online
 In the Surinamese slave registers, it is estimated that eighty thousand people registered between 1830 and the abolition of slavery in 1863, lived in slavery in Suriname. Slave owners had to register the people in their possession, including name, date of birth and the name of the mother and information about birth, death, release, sale and other information that was important for the status and value of people in slavery.
The registers belong to the collection of the Nationaal Archief Suriname but were very limited to the public because they were not digitized and a name index was missing. In January 2017, initiators Coen van Galen (Radboud University) and Maurits Hassankhan (Anton de Kom University of Suriname) started with crowdfunding and recruiting volunteers. In the past year and a half, nearly 1500 volunteers, donors and supporters in the Netherlands and in Suriname have participated in the project 'Make the Surinamese slave registers public'. They brought the money together and quickly entered all registers. The Dutch National Archive has ensured that all data are also digitally accessible.
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