Q&A with Harmen Snel, Senior Archivist at the Amsterdam City Archives

Harmen Snel of the Amsterdam City Archives is a well-known figure in the world of Sephardic genealogy. Two years ago he joined us to discuss the Amsterdam notarial archives. This week he returns to Sephardic World to answer our questions about sources in the archives, including those not published by the Portuguese-Jewish community. You can share questions in advance on the Patreon page, or live at the meeting.

Harmen Snel has worked at the Amsterdam City Archives since 1981, now as senior archivist Public Services. As well as Jews, he is an expert on travellers, artists, criminals, and other non-mainstream groups. With the late Dave Verdooner, he published Trouwen in Mokum/Jewish marriages in Amsterdam (containing all Amsterdam Jewish marriages 1598-1811), the Registro (containing indexes on all Sephardic ketuboth in Amsterdam 1672-1912). With Jits van Straten, among others, he published books about Jewish first names and family names in Amsterdam. Harmen has also published about Jewish teachers, midwives and sailors of the Dutch East India Company.

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