WieWasWie

Overview and Content
WieWasWie is the premier site for Dutch records. Its aim is to provide in one place indexes of all Vital Records and other important genealogical records from the Netherlands.

The site contains 110.5 million records from the following sources:


 * Civil Registration(1811-1960): 82 million
 * Newspaper Records(c.1800-2010): 12.5 million
 * Church Records(c.1550-1811): 8.5 million
 * Population Registers(1850-1939): 5 million
 * VOC Records(1600-1811): 0.8 million
 * Military Records(1811-1930): 0.6 million
 * Others: 0.6 million

Coverage
To check if records are available for a certain town, use [http://www.wiewaswie.info/inhoud/watziterin.php WatZitErIn}. The types of records will be accurate, but the dates may be incorrect(1000-2099 is a common mistake).

Coverage for Large Cities
The information is taken from [http://www.wiewaswie.info/inhoud/watziterin.php WatZitErIn}.

Features and Cost
Up until January 2016 the site will be completely free. From then the following scheme will be in place.

For Free, one may search for one person at a time without wildcards. You can access records and images without restriction. You may have a free account and make comments and corrections to records.

For 18.50 Euro per year or 5.00 Euro per month you may use all the features of the site. This includes searching for two persons at one time and using wildcards. Friends of the CBD get a discount.

The search engines of provincial archives should remain free and will become an alternative to WieWasWie.

The site is currently available in Dutch and English. However, the actual content of the data base is not translated.