Welcome to AlleFriezen.nl

“AlleFriezen” is a website that presents data from Frisian municipal archives, the “Streekarchivariaat Noord-Oost Friesland” (the regional archives of north eastern Friesland), the “Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden” (Leeuwarden Historical Centre), and “Tresoar” (Frisian Historical Centre). Data about all Frisian people, born, married, or deceased in the province of Fryslân from the 19th century till the middle of the 1950’s.

“AlleFriezen” primarily aims at showing information from public records of the Registry Offices (since 1811) en to enable the viewing of the original certificates, belonging to that information. “AlleFriezen” depends on the (financial) support of the Frisian municipalities. Eventually the information from Registry Offices will be supplemented with (further) information from the registers of births, deaths and marriages.

At this moment, all the registers of births (1811-1902), marriages (1811-1922) and deaths (1811-1942) from many Frisian municipalities can be consulted. A list of participating municipalities can be found in the frame on the left. Search is possible by name. The certificate can be viewed, and if required printed. It is also possible to view the registers page by page.

A municipality is added to the list of “Deelnemers” (participants) as soon as that municipality has financed the scanning of its certificates. This however does not mean that digitalized certificates can be viewed yet. The Pictura company collects the certificates from Tresoar in order to scan them. During the scanning one is dependant on the available scanning capacity. As an indication, the total number of public certificates from Frisian Registry Offices currently amounts to 1,8 million! So please keep an eye on the website for further input.

Mistakes and omissions are alas inevitable, seen the large amount of data on this website. Please let us know via the form under “detailgegevens” (detailed information) if you run into inadequacies during your search of the database (e.g. Jan should be Piet, data are illogical, certificates are linked incorrectly etc.). If necessary, the record will then be corrected in the source of data. The mutations are processed in batches, several times during the year. The spelling is based on the spelling of the original certificate during the input.

In order to view the scans, an Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.22.87 is required. This can be downloaded and installed via http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/.

The website of Pictura shows images of the opening of AlleFriezen.nl. You can view them here.