Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Population Registers

What Is in This Collection?

This collection includes indexed records from across the Netherlands. This collection contains population registers. For an index to other records, see Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records and Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Public Records.

The data in this index was contributed from many archives around the Netherlands. The collection continues to grow as records become available. The indexes were originally collected, combined, and published by OpenArchives. For the entire index collection and more information visit OpenArchives.

This collection contains records of many types including:

• Civil registration
• Church
• Emigration
• Military
• Land
• Tax

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

Reading These Records

These records are written in Dutch. For help reading them see:

• Netherlands Languages
• Dutch Genealogical Word List
• Netherlands Handwriting
• Reading Dutch Records (PDF): Birth, Marriage, Death

FamilySearch Learning Center:

• Beginner Dutch Handwriting
• Names in Belgium and the Netherlands
• Search Classes in the Learning Center for classes with "Dutch" in the title

In this collection, some index entries may include the following Dutch terms:

• onbekend, "unknown"
• levenloos, "stillborn"
• een levenloos zoon, "stillborn son"
• een levenloze dochter, "stillborn daughter"
• weduwe van, "widow of"
• de vrouw van, "the wife of"
• twee kinderen van, "two children of"
• zijn jonggeb kind, "his young child"

These normally occur in place of an individual's given name. None of these terms should ever be considered an actual name.

What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:

Birth Records Date and place of birth Given name of child Full names of parents

Marriage Records Date and place of marriage Full names of bride and groom Names of parents Names of witnesses

Burial Registers Date and place of death Name of deceased Names of parents, esp. if infant

Collection Content

Coverage Table

For a list of the archives which have contributed to this collection, please see OpenArchives' page showing the number of individual entries.