CBG|Center for family history

CBG is a reliable and easily accessible source for everyone who is looking for answers about their family history in relation to The Netherlands. In your research, you can rely upon the expertise and dedication of our employees, and on the use of the unique sources that we have available. We believe that everyone has the right to know where they come from. Through our collection of personal record cards and personal record lists from the National Register of the Diceased (NRO) you can find information about your recent deceased Dutch ancestors. These are for ancestors who died from 1939 until now. You can look in our platform WieWasWie for primary sources such as civil registration, for ancestors who died before 1975.* On this platform you can search by name and find a compilation of sources from Dutch archives, all available and downloadable online. Visit our URL here below if you want to know more. *Due to Dutch privacy regulation, birth certificates are available 100 years after birth, marriage certificates are available 75 years after marriage and death certificates are available 50 years after death.