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[https://www.openarch.nl/ '''Open Archives'''] is a free website for finding genealogical records in the Netherlands and Belgium, developed by [https://genealogie.coret.org/en/ Bob Coret]. It consists primarily of [[Netherlands Civil Registration|civil registration]], [[Netherlands Church Records|church records]] and [[Netherlands Population Registers|population registers]], though many other record types are also included. It's main rival is [[WieWasWie]].

Open Archives is a portal and aggregator of open historical data. By re-using open data from archives and researchers Open Archives makes an innovative portal which makes historical data from indexed sources available to end users in a user-friendly and innovative way. The innovation is especially evident with the automatic linking to other records, people in other data sources and additional context information.

Open data allows for innovation! With this in mind, all data within Open Archives is also provided in an unambiguous manner as open data via an API and OAI-PMH data provider so that other developers can get to work. This makes Open Archives an aggregator of open historical data.

*Information from 93 archives and societies about 215 million (non-unique) persons, from records like civil and church registries, currently mostly from the Netherlands