Baptism, wedding and burial books

A traditionally widely requested and consulted part of the collection are the baptismal, wedding and burial books, also known as the DTB books. These sources are further known as the retroacts of the civil status, because it concerns registers in which the population administration was kept in the time prior to the introduction of the civil status (1811). This was done by various ecclesiastical authorities. The dataset contains > 90,000 baptisms, > 40,000 marriage certificates and > 20,000 burial certificates. The dataset contains a wealth of data about people born, married or buried in or around Nijmegen before 1811. The data comes from the Digital Study Room of the Regional Archive Nijmegen and is modelled according to the A2A model The dataset is offered via OAI-PMH harvesting.