Open Archives makes transcriptions of scans of historical documents searchable and offers the possibility to make a summary of them in contemporary language. After the Second World War, approximately 425,000 people in the Netherlands were suspected of working with the German occupiers (collaboration), such as membership of the NSB, treason, or joining the German army. They were investigated under criminal law. Not everyone was convicted or found guilty. The files of the people investigated are in the Central Archives for Special Jurisdiction (CABR. Birth certificates from the registry office only become public after 100 years. Birth certificates contain the official name of a person. Civil status records are always drawn up in duplicate: one goes to the municipality where the event took place and ends in the municipal or regional archive, the other goes through the court to the provincial archive (RHC). Retroacta of the Civil Registry are the registers in which the church population administration was kept until the introduction of the civil registry. These are referred to as DTB registers (baptism, marriage and burial registers). Search the genealogical records of open archives and historical societies and automatically find linked documents and additional information about people and context error_code :1, error_description : Invalid archive , request : https:\/\/. Search the genealogical data of Dutch and Belgian archives and societies and automatically find linked documents and additional information about people and context. Collections In addition to advanced search of all data by name and by archive / source / location, you can also search specific collections. Retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand zijn de registers waarin de kerkelijke bevolkingsadministratie tot aan de invoering van de burgerlijke stand werd bijgehouden. Deze worden aangeduid als DTB-registers (doop-, trouw- en begraafregisters). Search genealogical records of open archives and historical societies and automatically find linked documents and additional information about people and context.