Search

“AlleFriezen” offers the possibility via the simple search screen (left) to search the registers of the Registry Office of a particular municipality by surname or Christian name. You can search all municipalities at once, or one at a time. Furthermore, you can refine your search with the button “uitgebreid”. That screen will show allow you to search in specific sources or periods. To search for any headword in all fields at once, you press the button “vrij”.

At this moment all references can be consulted to certificates of births (1811-1902), marriages (1811-1922) and deaths (1811-1942) of the Registry Offices of the participating municipalities. In the near future we aim to digitalise all further certificates of births, marriages and deaths, and to connect those images to specific people (read: numbers of certificates).

You can view all fields of the record concerning a found in a pop up screen by clicking the specific line. The screen will close when you click again. The certificates/pages that the database refers to, can be viewed via the button “bekijk details”. Should you like to see the original certificate straight from the result screen, please click the eye icon. You can furthermore print the image of the original certificate.

The use of wildcards

During your search you can make use of the so called wildcards. With the use of an asterisk (*) you search for results of which part of the word has a variable spelling. The search order P*ter* will result in  “Pieter”, “Peter”, “Piter, as well as “Peter K.” If one letter is unknown, you can use a question mark (?). The search order Ann? will therefore result in results with both the names Anna as Anne.