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
Publisher: Open Archives
data@openarch.nl
Creator: National Archives / Archives South Holland
Part of: https://www.openarchieven.nl/datasets/
Landing Page: https://www.openarchieven.nl/datasets/ghn
License: CC0 1.0 Universal
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

533,384

Triples

68,650

Subjects

7.8

Avg. triples per subject

50

Unique predicates

94,988

Unique objects

35%

65%

Literals: 33,286

URIs: 61,702

Classes

Properties

Value Types

Registration

Registered URL: https://www.openarchieven.nl/datasets/ghn Valid
Registered on: December 22, 2023 at 01:54 PM
Last read: 20 hours ago
Quality Rating: 100%

Dataset genealogical metadata National Archives via Open Archives EN

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Linked Data Summary Show information Statistical information about this dataset retrieved from the Knowledge Graph, including the number of triples, entities, properties, and class distribution.