Up until now, GeneaGenie has focused on searching indexed records. However, these collections will always be limited to what dedicated volunteers have had the time to transcribe.

The new archive search lets you go hunting through the original records yourself, for the birth, marriage, or death of a person. Tell us the event, the place, and the period, and GeneaGenie shows you every scanned register that could hold that moment. Municipal, state, regional, and FamilySearch archives come together in a single, unified interface organised on a timeline by event type — with direct links straight to the original scans!

• Compare holdings side by side: State, municipal, regional, and FamilySearch archives all in one view.
• See every archive on the map: Spot the repositories nearby and add a neighbouring municipality to your search with a single click.
• Jump straight to the scans: Open the original register images.
• Keep track of your progress: Mark which registers you have already checked.

When exploring your family tree, you will now see dedicated research tabs in the sidebar for each person. These tabs point out missing information and incomplete dates, and show the exact clues behind GeneaGenie's estimations. Select any of these leads to instantly launch a targeted archive search, and we'll automatically calculate the most likely places and years to investigate first.

Additionally, you can now access the original scans directly from the sidebar. To build a robust family tree and verify your findings, you inevitably need to consult those original scanned registers — and doing so has just become a whole lot easier. Just click the archive icon next to any recorded event to jump straight into the correct register!

Online Familieberichten – 2,292,153 records

A project by the Stichting Online-Verleden that collects and indexes family announcements published in national and regional Dutch newspapers. You can browse over 2 million birth, marriage, and death announcements, memorial cards, mourning letters, and more — all contributed by a dedicated team of volunteers and freely accessible to everyone.

Online Begraafplaatsen – 3,634,800 records

Also run by Stichting Online-Verleden, this project has documented over 3.6 million graves across more than 3,700 cemeteries — mainly in the Netherlands but also in Belgium, Germany, and beyond. Volunteers photograph and transcribe headstones, making burial records freely searchable for anyone researching their ancestors.

Archief Lier – 200,693 records

The city archive of Lier (province of Antwerp) shares its archival descriptions, record creators, and digitised documents. Whether you're tracing roots in Lier or the surrounding Rivierenland region, this collection opens up parish registers, civil registry records, and much more.