Past editor and coordinator: Eli Schaap
Current editor: Alex Van Oss

Volunteers: Chaim Caran, Dini Hansma (chief researcher), Nicky Huisman, Gerrit Kornalijnslijper, Frederieka Zink (assistent chief researcher).
(Maintained by:-Alexander Van Oss, Gizela Fonfeder, Nico Creveld)
Goal
The goal of this project is to reconstruct, as thoroughly as possible, the Jewish population in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. We hope this information will help descendants recover their family history. In addition, this data base will function as a tool for scholars of the history, sociology, and demography of the Dutch Jewish community.

Volunteers

Many volunteers participate in the research for this project. Dini Hansma (Utah, U.S.) documents the actual birth, marriage, and death certificates, town by town, in the provinces of Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe, and Overijssel. She works from the microfilms of the Dutch civil records (Burgerlijke Stand) assembled at the LDS Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has completed research on the province of Drenthe, and is still compiling information on the other provinces. Frederieka Zink is assisting Hansma by entering the data into the computer. Eli Schaap (New York) has gathered in the past data from various sources to compare with and supplement Hansma's data. He worked with Jewish archival data, and genealogies published on the Internet, appearing in books, or submitted to him by other genealogists. Chaim Caran (Eilat, Israel), one of the initiators of this project, has been checking and correcting the data on Friesland. Nicky Huisman (the Netherlands) and Gerrit Kornalijnslijper (the Netherlands) contribute data on Jews from the northeastern region who later moved elsewhere, or vice versa. Max Van Dam contributes current amendments and corrections to the data base.