Record Atlas
37 FamilySearch collections · 4 archives · 506 places · 1367–2000

Netherlands

Where the records of Netherlands are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 77,473,893 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Netherlands

4 of the 4 checked sources here can be opened tonight. 4are free images with no account. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Netherlands without a subscription.

Write to Nationaal Archief for what is not online. FamilySearch has 37 collections covering it, running 1367–2000, 77,473,893 indexed records. 2 pieces of this ground are mapped for jurisdiction, so the atlas can say whose archive held it in a given year.

506 places placed, 6 volumes walked. Open Netherlands on the map, or tell us what is missing.

Whose archive this ground was

Record regions mapped in Netherlands — which empire held the ground, and therefore which archive holds its paper.

The archives

  • Archieven.nl free

    One search across more than ninety Dutch archives — 133 million person records, 59,308 inventories, and the finding aids themselves rather than only the indexed names. It is the layer above WieWasWie: WieWasWie tells you a birth was registered, this tells you which shelf the register sits on and what else that archive holds about the family. Free to search; whether the scan behind a hit opens depends on the institution that holds it, and this atlas has not walked all ninety.

  • Delpher free The Hague, Netherlands

    Dutch newspapers, books and periodicals, full-text and free. Death notices here fill gaps the registers leave.

  • Nationaal Archief free The Hague, Netherlands

    The Dutch National Archives at The Hague. WieWasWie pools the civil registration indexes of every regional archive and is the usual way in; this is the institution behind the national series — the colonial, military, notarial and VOC material that no index of births and deaths reaches.

  • WieWasWie / Open Archieven free The Hague, Netherlands

    The Dutch civil registration indexes, pooled from every regional archive. Free, and unusually complete.

And 12 worldwide providers reach Netherlands too — the full list.

37 FamilySearch collections

Grouped by the ground each one covers, nationwide. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

Netherlands — nationwide 37

29 more collections, contributed

A directory David assembled, sorted by what kind of record each one is. Read this differently from the rest of the page. The descriptions are his, not an archive's catalogue, and nobody here has opened the volumes behind them. Every link was tried on 2026-09-20 and answered; the ones that did not are not listed.

Church and parish registers 2
Civil registration and vital records 13
Censuses and population lists 14
Probate, land and notarial 1
Immigration and emigration 1
Cemeteries and burials 1
Jewish and minority 1
General historical archives 1

506 places, 6 volumes

The 250 carrying the most collections are listed; 256 more are in Netherlands and on the map. Every place lists them all.

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