Various new old-maps have been added to the site, including three versions of the map of Banchem from 1593, another version of the 1686 map and a very colourfull map from 1687. A first attempt was made to determine the location of the Bankras lake on a recent satellite image. The result can be [...]

The city archive of Amsterdam is working on making 32 kilometers of archive digitally available to the public. Searching the database resulted in various documents of interest: some already digitally available, others have been requested to be scanned with priority. A new group of pages with scans of baptism registers has already been added to [...]