Church records are extremely important because they are the primary source of vital information prior to the institution of civil registration. In the Netherlands, most people attended either the Dutch Reformed or Catholic churches, but other denominations existed as well. Please see the archive list below for locality coverage. The majority of the records date between 1580 and 1811, though the extent of year coverage can vary by locality. Records included in this collection come from the following archives: Drenthe Drenthe Archive (Drents Archief) Flevoland Nieuw Land Heritage (Nieuw Land Erfgoedcentrum) Friesland Tresoar (AlleFriezen) Gelderland Gelders Archive (Gelders Archief) Regional Archives Nijmegen (Regionaal Archief Nijmegen) Regional Archives Rivierenland (Regionaal Archief Rivierenland) Groningen AlleGroningers (AlleGroningers) Limburg Municipal Archive Venray (Gemeente Venray, gemeentearchief) North Brabant Brabant Historical Information Centre (Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum) City Archive Breda (Stadsarchief Breda) Regional Historic Centre Eindhoven (Regionaal Historisch Centrum Eindhoven) West-Brabant Archive (West Brabants Archief) Regional Archive Tilburg (Regionaal Archief Tilburg) North Holland Amsterdam City Archives (Stadsarchief Amsterdam) Regional Archive Alkmaar (Regionaal Archief Alkmaar) Overijssel City Archive Deventer (Stadsarchief Deventer) South Holland Archive Delft (Archief Delft) Heritage Leiden and Environs (Erfgoed Leiden en omstreken) Municipal Archive Wassenaar (Gemeentearchief Wassenaar) Provincial Archives South Holland (Nationaal Archief Rijksarchief Zuid-Holland) Regional Archives Dordrecht (Regional Archives Dordrecht) Utrecht The Utrecht Archives (Het Utrechts Archief) Regional History Center Vecht and Venen (Regionaal Historisch Centrum Vecht en Venen) Zeeland Municipal Archive Noord-Beveland (Gemeentearchief Noord-Beveland) Municipal Archive Tholen (Gemeentearchief Tholen)
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
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