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). WieWasWie -Major site containing most civil registration records, and some population registers, church records, newspapers and military records Open Archives Similar to WieWasWie but with slightly more records. A big 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 FamilySearch 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. Indexed. Incomplete. Netherlands, Marriages, 1565-1892. Indexed. Incomplete. Also atFindMyPast Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Deaths and Burials, 1668-1945. Indexed. Incomplete. Ancestry.com UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969, index ($) Netherlands, Birth Index, 1784-1917. Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Baptism Index, 1557-1902. Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Marriage Index, 1575-1938. Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Civil Marriage Index, 1795-1950, index Netherlands, Burial Index, 1540-1899. Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Death Index, 1795-1969. Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Newspaper Announcements Index, 1795-1945. Indexed. Incomplete. ($) My Heritage.com Netherlands, Notarial Records, 1600-1935, index ($) Netherlands, Deaths and Burials, 1668-194, index ($)5 Netherlands, Civil Deaths, 1811-1965 Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Civil Marriages, 1811-1940 Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Church Baptisms, 1580-1811 Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands Civil Births, 1811- 1915 Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Church Burials, 1601-1811 Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands Burial Records, index ($) Netherlands, Church Marriages, 1580-1811 Indexed. Incomplete. ($) FindMyPast.com Netherlands Births & Baptisms 1564-1910 Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands Deaths & Burials 1668-1945 Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Large Databases With Many Record Types Surname Navigator The Netherlands. Megasearch engines by province. Van Papier Naar Digitaal (VPND) Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Miscellaneous Records — index Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Public Records, index. Biographies BiographyOnline, Famous Dutch People Biography Portal of the Netherlands Cemeteries Graftombe. Digital cemetery records with name search. Incomplete. Online Begraafplaatsen - Dutch Cemeteries, index ($) Online Cemetery Records. Index. Incomplete. The Netherlands American Cemetery. Index.

Occupations UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969, index ($) Population Registers and Censuses Netherlands, Census and Population Registers, 1574-1940. Some volumes are indexed and some places contain separate index volumes. Incomplete. Also at Ancestry.com($) Netherlands, Population Registers Index, 1720-1944. Indexed. Incomplete. ($) Netherlands, Population Registers, 1810-1936, index and images, ($) Citizenship Netherlands, Dutch Police Lists of Foreigners, 1930-1954, ($). Compiled Genealogies Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie. HCC Genealogie Stamboomzoeker, "Pedigree seeker". Genealogie Online GEDCOM Index The Netherlands. Index. Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, index, ($) Emigration, Immigration, and Passenger Lists Immigrant Ancestors Project 1600-2000 Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Miscellaneous Records at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images 1620-1960 Passenger lists, Digital Resources Netherlands and Belgium In the left sidebar, select "Passenger lists" - until 1736 or after 1736 1633-1795 Netherlands, Dutch East India Company Crew Index, 1633-1795 at Ancestry; index only ($) 1820-1880 Dutch Immigrants to America, 1820-1880, ($). index. Incomplete. 1831-1877 Nederland. Emigranten naar overzeesche gebiedsdelen, 1831-1876 (Emigrants to Overseas Territories) 1831-1877 1845-1877 Netherlands, Emigration Records (Collection to be published) at FamilySearch, index and images. How to Use This Collection 1848-1877 List of Emigrants, 1848-1877 index 1881-1894 Dutch Immigrants: New York Passenger Lists, 1881-1894, ($). Index. Incomplete. 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Netherlands 1900-1974 Netherlands Passenger Lists Holland-America Line, 1900-1974 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Netherlands Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Netherlands under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival". 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries. Free Access: USC Shoah Foundation, Holocaust – Jewish Survivor Interviews Jewish Records JewishGen's Holocaust Database. Index. Incomplete. Land Records Netherlands, Notarial Records, 1600-1935, index ($) 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, ($). Netherlands Newspapers, 1659-1899 at MyHeritage ($), index and images Online Familieberichten - Dutch Death Notices, index ($) Periodicals PERiodical Source Index, index and images, ($) Population Nederlands Familiennamenbank, "Dutch Name Bank", maps surname frequency. For translating vocabulary typically found on websites, see Dutch Websites- Vocabulary List. "Wills and Probate' Netherlands, Notarial Records, 1600-1935, index ($)

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