Records in Open Archives by Dutch archive: most Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (25,449,700 records), then Stadsarchief Amsterdam and Stadsarchief Rotterdam

Records in Open Archives by Dutch archive, October 2026, in records. Total: 286,471,667; the largest 12 of 154 categories are shown. Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum is 9% of the total. Dutch archives and societies only (ISIL code NL- or a website in the nl domain); all 200 participants together hold 368,619,131 records.

Source: Open Archieven, API v1.1 (stats/records en stats/archives) · opgehaald 25 oktober 2026 · selection: archieven met een ISIL-code NL- of een homepage op .nlOpen the table Single block

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Open Archieven (Coret Genealogie)

Open Archives by Coret Genealogie combines the genealogical data of 200 archives and societies, mostly Dutch, also Belgian and French. On 16 October 2026 the statistics API counted 368,475,032 records across 199 source types: civil registration of deaths, births and marriages, population registers, church baptism, marriage and burial registers, notarial records and more. A keyless REST API, SPARQL, OAI-PMH and file exports under CC BY 4.0.

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Fetched: 25 October 2026

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Records in Open Archives by Dutch archive: most Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (25,449,700 records), then Stadsarchief Amsterdam and Stadsarchief Rotterdam

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