Dataset genealogical metadata National Archives via Open Archives

The open data consists of metadata from 4,450,903 records of National Archives, with 4.172.557 historical person observations. The source types included baptisms, marriages (church). This dataset can be searched via https://www.openarchieven.nl/ghn

URI: https://www.openarchieven.nl/id/dataset_ghn (opens in new tab)
Publisher: Open Archives
genealogie@coret.org
Creator: National Archives / Archives South Holland (opens in new tab)
Part of: https://www.openarchieven.nl/datasets/ (opens in new tab)
Landing Page: https://www.openarchieven.nl/datasets/ghn (opens in new tab)
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (opens in new tab)
Spatial Coverage: Nederland, Netherlands
Temporal Coverage: 1582-1966
Languages: nl-NL
Keywords: Genealogy Historical personal data Marriages (church)Baptisms
Modified: November 18, 2025

Distributions

N-Triples

https://oa-export.s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud/nt/ghn.nt.gz

Compressed N-triples file

Modified: 1/17/2024 File Size: 3.8 MB

XML

https://api.openarchieven.nl/oai-pmh/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_a2a&set=ghn

OAI-PMH endpoint with XML based on the A2A model

XML

https://oa-export.s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud/xml/ghn.xml.gz

Compressed XML file based on the A2A model

Modified: 10/28/2025 File Size: 545.5 MB

Linked Data Summary

68,650

Unique subjects

533,384

Triples

7.8

Avg. triples per subject

50

Unique predicates

Classes

Properties

Value Types

Registration

Registered URL: https://www.openarchieven.nl/datasets/ghn (opens in new tab) Valid (opens in new tab)
Registered on: December 22, 2023 at 01:54 PM
Last read: 6 hours ago
Quality Rating: 100%

Dataset genealogical metadata National Archives via Open Archives EN