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For people wrestling with the Julian- and Gregorian calenders there's an absolute great tool/website called: The Perpetual Calendar. It's providing an excellent background-text and a large overview over the use of Julian- and Gregorian dates in different countries all over the world. Another good website about this subject is: Old Style and new style dates and the change to the Gregorian Calendar. 

Also do have a look at the site of the Dutch Nijkerk-Schenectady Foundation. It shows the 'Corlaer' farm in the town of Nijkerk. This was the birthplace of Arendt van Curler.

A good starting point for anyone researching their Dutch ancestors is: Researching Your Dutch Ancestors, by Miriam Klaassen

Persons, researchers who want professional help for historical and/or genealogical research, basic or extensive look-ups in (specialized)  libraries or archives should definitely visit the  'Dutch Archives historical research bureau'. This excellent, professional site is in Dutch and English. The leader of this bureau -situated in Leiden- is highly qualified: visit the site to get an idea!
To gain indepth information on Lambert Huybertszen Moll visit the 'Will the real Lambert Huybertszen Moll stand up' page of the fantastic informative website of the author Warnar Moll.

To learn anything about the Dutch surnames please go to the Meertens Instituut Website. Most of this site is still written in Dutch, but the Database of Surnames has an English version. Bookmark this site!
For information concerning German genealogy I can highly recommend the 'Genealogical Handbook of German Research'.

For those among you who will have to deal with German texts, there's a short but clear article 'Identifying German Names'. Take a -large- cup of coffee, and you'll be much wiser when you finished drinking it to the bottom... The Genealogical Handbook of German Research will take a lot more coffee, but it offers all you need.
The FEEFHS (FEDERATION OF EAST EUROPEAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES) website is an amazing source for people to search in the Easteuropean area.
To find the right Dutch places and the municipalities and provinces to which they belong to, use How to use the Netherlands Gazetteer of the Familysearch. org.
And, don't forget Cyndi's List for anything you need while starting or heavily involved in Dutch Genealogy: it offers all you need! Persons, having ancestors in mainly the province of Noord-Holland might really enjoy the large genealogical database of Rob Gomes.
I can HIGHLY recommend to visit the site of the GSFA (the Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans). Don't forget to also visit their page containing the Contents of past issues of the Flemish American Heritage, the semi-annual GSFA Magazine. Also mind the Archive CD Books-site. The Archive CD Books Project exists to make reproductions of old books, documents and maps available on CD to genealogists and historians, and to co-operate with libraries, museums and record offices in providing money to renovate old books in their collection, and to donate books to their collections, where they will be preserved for future generations.

Maybe another good idea?

"Names, Names and More Names: Locating your Dutch Ancestors in Colonial America" by Arthur C.M. Kelly. (Another review of this book can be found at Ancestry.Com)
For those who don't understand a word of Latin: go to the Online Latin to English translator.

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Yellow coloured text: names predominantly in use in the SouthernNetherlands (aka Belgium)

Lightgreen coloured text: Frisian

Red coloured text: East Middle Dutch

April(le), Aprel, Apriel, Aprul,Grasmaent
Middle Dutch 'Gras, gers': grass.
Note: 'gers' also meant '1/3 morgen!

Meye, Bloeymaent
Middle Dutch 'Bloeyen, bloyen, bloen' (verbs): to bloom,to blossom

September ( Herfstmaand )
Also: Fruitmaand, Gerstmaand, Bacchusmaand, Evenemaand and D'andre oogstmaand

Piet(e)maent, Herstmaent (Hervest-, Heerfst-, Herest-, Erft-, Heruft-, Herfstemaent)
Middle Dutch 'Herst' and variations: autumn
Original meaning of Old Dutch and Old Saxon 'hervist' actually is 'harvest' . Compare August.

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Decree of Napoleon
In the Palace of St.Cloud, August the 18th 1811"
Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Rhine-alliance, Negotiator of the Swiss Alliance.
On the report of our Supreme-Judge Minister of Justice; Respecting our Decree of July 20th 1808; Consulting our Statescouncil;
We made the following decree:

Art 1. Our subjects in the departments of the former Holland, Mouths of the Rhine, Mouths of the Scheldt, the county of Breda, which did not have a regular family or first name, must during the year of the announcement of our current decree adopt one and register this name at the register of the civil town, where they are living.
Art 2. Names of cities will not be allowed as family names. First names are accepted like the which are allowed by law of the II germinal in the II th year.
Art 3. The mayors which register the inhabitants of their towns, will check and give notice to the government that the previous articles were respected. They are also bound to inform the government about civilians who have changed their name without conducting according to the rules of the above mentioned law of II Germinal IIth year.
Art 4. The subjects the departments of the former Holland, mouths of the Rhine, mouths of the Scheldt, the county of Breda, which already carry for a longer time well known names and first names which were originated in those towns are excluded from the rules of the current decree.
Art 5. The subjects, of the previous article, which want to keep their name and first names, are bound to register themselves in the town where they live or in the town where they are planning to settle: this all within the time as mentioned in article 1.
Art 6.The family name, which the father, or, by indeposition of him, the grandfather on the fathers side, will accept ,or which name will be granted, will be given to all children, which will be bound, to carry the same family name in the certificates; therefore the father, or, by indisposition the grandfather, the children and grandchildren will mention in his registration as well as the place of living; and for our subjects who's father, or by his indeposition, their grandfather is still alive, have only to state that he is alive and give his place of living.
Art 7.Those, which by the current decree not act according to the given formalities and time, and those, which, in some public paper or private agreement, arbitrary and not act following the rules of the II germinal IIth year, have changed their names, will be punished in accordance with the applicable laws.
Art 8. Our supreme judge-minister of justice and our minister of internal affairs are, for their respective duties in charge with the execution of the current Decree, which will be placed in the bulletin of laws.
(signed.) NAPOLEON
Representing the Emperor, the Minister Secretary of State,

Supplementary comment:

The "Burgerlijke Stand" (Registration Service/Civil Registration) was an idea of the French, introduced 1792 in France, 1796 in Belgium, Dutch Limburg and Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. (Maastricht, capital of Limburg already had Civil Registration introduced in 1794), 1811 in the Netherlands
Though officially introduced in 1796, it lasted till 1803 that Civil Registration in Belgium was accomplished completely. So Napoleon's Decree on family names of 1811 for the Netherlands didn't immediately lead to the adoption of fixed family names by all Dutch inhabitants. Especially in the northern provinces Groningen and Friesland many families just persisted in using patronymics the old way. Generally, the genealogist can assume that fixed family names for all Dutch and Belgians were a fact from the year 1825. So it's not impossible that while tracing your ancestors in the Netherlands you will still find some with varying names or patronymics between 1811 and 1825!