Verification of missing persons lists from the Dutch Government Gazette
After the war there were tens of thousands of (especially Jewish) Dutch people who were not officially determined that they had died. This involved all kinds of legal complications, such as inheritance issues. In order to solve these problems, in June 1949 the 'Act, containing provisions concerning the preparation of deeds of death of missing persons' came into force. This law stipulated that the Minister of Justice could have a death certificate drawn up at the registry office. The ministry had to arrange for registration and investigation of the missing persons. That research had to minimize the chance that the missing persons would later turn up with all the complications of that. The results of that research were published in the Dutch Government Gazette.
The scans of the newspapers (which are made available via Delpher.nl) have been converted into text by the Royal Library via the computer (OCR). However, the quality is not 100%. Open Archives calls on you to help check and, where necessary, correct the data!
You do not need knowledge of old manuscripts for this task, these are printed texts. All that is required is accuracy. The text must match exactly, so take over names, abbreviations and capital letters exactly as they are shown in the Government Gazette.
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