Netherlands Online Genealogy Records

The Netherlands

Online Genealogy Records

Guide to Netherlands Online Genealogy Records for researching ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth, marriage, death, census, church, military, immigration, and naturalization records.

The Netherlands Online Genealogy Records This chart shows links to countrywide collections. To find links to local and regional resources, go to Netherlands_Regional_Websites. Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

General Websites FamilySearch Historical Record Collection for the Netherlands has church records (pre-1811) and civil registration (post-1796/1811). However, they are much easier to navigate using Zoekakten as an index. WieWasWie -Major site containing most civil registration records, and some population registers, church records, newspapers and military records Openarch Similar to WieWasWie but with slightly more records. A small portion of its records can be searched in the collections Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Miscellaneous Records and *Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Public Records, index. GeneaKnowHow A site that collates many different online resources for the Netherlands, and includes their subsidary VPND who makes images and indexes of various records, especially Church Records, available online. Births, Marriages and Deaths Netherlands, Bibliothèque Wallonne, Card Indexes, ca. 1500-1858. Abstracts of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and memberships from French Protestant parish registers from Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Card index. Incomplete. Netherlands, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1910. FamilySearch Historical Records. Indexed. Incomplete. Netherlands, Marriages, 1565-1892. FamilySearch Historical Records. Indexed. Incomplete. Netherlands, Deaths and Burials, 1668-1945. FamilySearch Historical Records. Indexed. Incomplete. Large Databases With Many Record Types Archivenet, website for the Dutch archive system]. If searching for a specific locality, click on “Nederland” in the top left and choose either “plaats” (place) or “provincie” (province). Click on the locality in which you want to search, and a list of all the archives, by type and town, comes up with automatic links.English is available for Surname Navigator The Netherlands. Megasearch engines by province. Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Miscellaneous Records — index Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Public Records, index. Biographies BiographyOnline, Famous Dutch People Biography Portal of the Netherlands Cemeteries Graftombe. Digital cemetery records with name search. Incomplete. Online Cemetery Records. Index. Incomplete. The Netherlands American Cemetery. Index.

Occupations UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969, index ($) Population Registers and Censuses Netherlands, Census and Population Registers, 1574-1940. Some volumes are indexed and some places contain separate index volumes. Incomplete. Also at Ancestry.com($) Citizenship Netherlands, Dutch Police Lists of Foreigners, 1930-1954, ($). Compiled Genealogies Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie. HCC Genealogie Stamboomzoeker, "Pedigree seeker". Genealogieonline GEDCOM Index The Netherlands. Index. Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, index, ($) Emigration, Immigration, and Passenger Lists Web: Netherlands, Dutch East India Company Passenger Lists to India, 1699-1794. Index. Passagierslijsten tot en met 1736, prior to 1736. Partially indexed. Incomplete. Passagierslijsten ná 1736, since 1736. Partially indexed. Incomplete. Dutch Immigrants to America, 1820-1880, ($). index. Incomplete. Dutch Immigrants: New York Passenger Lists, 1881-1894, ($). Index. Incomplete. Netherlands, Passenger Lists Holland-America Line, 1900-1974. Passenger lists for the Holland-America Line (Holland Amerika Lijn) Jewish Records JewishGen's Holocaust Database. Index. Incomplete. Military Records Soldiers in the Netherlands in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century Netherlands, Army Service Records, 1807-1929. Military service records of non-commissioned officers and enlisted men in the Netherlands Army. Images, units and date ranges indexed. "War Graves Foundation", 180,000 Dutch war casualties. Newspapers Online-Familieberichten Index, 1794-2013. Family announcements from national newspapers and regional magazines. Netherlands, Newspaper Announcements Index, 1795-1945, ($). Population Nederlands Familiennamenbank, "Dutch Name Bank", maps surname frequency. For translating vocabulary typically found on websites, see Dutch Websites- Vocabulary List.

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