Numbers and Calendar

Dates and Time

 In Dutch records, dates are often written out. For example:

Donderdag, drie en twintig maart in het jaar van onse heer een duizend acht hondert en zesendertig [Thursday, three and twenty March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six and thirty].

The names of months and days of the week are never capitalized in Dutch.

To understand Dutch dates, use the following list.

Days of the Week 

Times of the Day 

Dutch birth and death records often indicated the time of day when the birth or death occurred. This is usually written out.

Numbers

In some Dutch genealogical records, numbers are written out. This is especially true with dates. The following list gives the cardinal (1, 2, 3) and the ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd) versions of each number. Days of the month are written in ordinal form. Below is a helpful table to better understand written Dutch numbers.

Refer often to this page as you begin your Dutch genealogical work.

Word List Extracted from the FamilySearch Wiki

Researchers should note that under Napoleon's French occupation of the Dutch, they were forced to use the French Republican Calendar and may have written official documents in French. More information can be found here Calendar- French Republican Calendar.