Civil Register of the Netherlands

If you have Dutch ancestors, you can easily trace back your ancestors till 1750-1780 through the Civil Registers, that contain birth, death and marriage records. The civil register in the Netherlands was created under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1811, and since then every marriage, death or birth had to be registred.
A large portion has been digitalized at this internet address. You can trace almost any Dutch ancestor that lived in the 19th century. Large segments of the Civil Registry have already been digitalized, and new entries are continuously added to this incredibly genealogy source. At the moment, the website of the Civil registry project contains already a couple of million entries. You can browse their website for free, and reconstruct the households and family trees of your ancestors without leaving the house. You can find this genealogical database here: Genlias
This should be the starting point for all genealogical research in the Netherlands.