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The National Register of the Deceased (Nationaal Register van Overledenen or NRO in Dutch) contains the personal record cards of individuals who passed away between 1939 and 1 October 1994 and who were registered as residents in a Dutch municipality at the time of their death. For persons who passed away after 1 October 1994, there are so-called personal record lists (extracts from the digitised system). The CBG|Center for family history (CBG|Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis or CBG in Dutch) manages the NRO on behalf of the Dutch authorities. Personal record cards and personal record lists can be requested by contacting the CBG. We will then send you a scanned copy of the original document.
You can easily request extracts from the NRO using the online application form. After payment, you will receive a confirmation and you will be able to download the requested documents within three working days via the “My CBG” tab on our website. In order to do this, you must have (or create) a free CBG account.
The costs of requesting personal record cards or lists are not calculated per extract, but per search. Each search costs USD 5.22. For instance, if you request data for eight individuals, you will be charged for eight completed (successful or unsuccessful) searches.
| USD (Incl. VAT) | Private individual |
| price per search | $5,22 |
| Annual subscription | $7,48 |
| ‘Count’ subscription | $11,37 |
N.B.: Prices are in USD; invoiced rates may differ slightly from the prices listed above due to exchange rate fluctuations.
You can also take out a subscription with the CBG in order to receive personal record lists. You provide the surname or surnames of the persons for whom you wish to obtain personal record lists. Once a year, in April, you will automatically be sent all the personal record lists of persons with the specified surname who died in the previous year. In addition to the annual subscription, you will need to pay the costs for the number of personal record lists you receive.
When requesting a count, you provide us with one surname only, and we count how often that surname is found in the NRO and inform you of the result. You will need to request a separate count for each surname. For instance, for a count of two surnames, you would be charged $11,37 x 2 counts = $22,74.
Personal record cards and personal record lists contain recent and privacy-sensitive information, which is why not all data may be provided. However, it is possible to request extracts. These extracts do not include information such as religious affiliation or the reasons for loss of Dutch nationality. Moreover, address details cannot be disclosed if the death occurred less than twenty years ago.
On the other hand, personal data of the individuals themselves, the names of their parents (often with places and dates of birth), and information about marriage(s), partner(s) and children are included.
Different privacy guidelines apply to the use of data that the CBG has obtained from the National Register of the Deceased.
Should you require further information, please email service@cbg.nl.
If you click on the order button, you will be directed to the online order form. First, you need to fill in all the details of the deceased person(s) for whom you wish to request an extract. You should fill in at least three fields for each extract you request; otherwise, it will be difficult to conduct a proper search of the NRO collection.
The more information you provide, the better we can search and the greater the chance that we will be able to find the extract you are looking for.
After completing the form, you will be shown a breakdown of your order and the calculated total costs. You will then be redirected to the secure online payment environment, where you can pay by credit card.
Once we have received your payment, your request is passed on to our team in the Personal Record Cards/Lists department. We will then start searching for the persons for whom you have requested an extract. Your request will be processed as quickly as possible. You can expect the results within three working days of submitting your request. If we need any additional information that you have not provided, we will contact you via the “My CBG” tab. You will also receive an email notification about this.
For standard requests for NRO extracts, the CBG charges a fee of USD 5. 22 per search. For instance, if you request eight extracts, you will be charged for eight completed searches (8 × USD 5. 22 = USD 41.76).
N.B.: Due to exchange rate fluctuations, the amount you are charged when we process your request may differ slightly.
The annual subscription is a service whereby we provide you with all the personal record cards and personal record lists for a particular surname. The prices in the list apply to a subscription for one surname; if you would like to subscribe to this service for more than one surname, you need to take out a subscription for each surname. Every year, you will receive all the new cards and lists of deceased persons in the Netherlands with the surname you specified.
A count is a service whereby we count how many individuals with a particular surname come up in the NRO. You give us the surname, and we then provide you with all the documents in the NRO collection in which this name appears.
You can expect the results within three working days of submitting your request.
Perhaps the deceased persons you requested could not be found in the NRO. There are various reasons for this—for example, the person might not have been registered as a resident of the Netherlands. Unfortunately, this also applies to many victims of German and Polish concentration camps during the Second World War.
As with any other source you use for genealogical research, you should take a cautious approach as to the completeness and accuracy of the information on personal record cards and personal record lists.
Since all personal record cards and personal record lists were filled in by human hands, some data could be missing and mistakes may have been made.
Personal record cards created around 1939—when the personal record card system was first introduced—may be incomplete. Some municipalities added more information than others, but in general only information that was current and deemed essential at the time was included.
• Children tended to be listed on the personal record card of the head of the family. This was usually the man.
• Grown-up children who had already left home when the personal record cards were first introduced in 1939 are often not listed on their parents’ card.
• Children of unmarried mothers who were given up for adoption immediately after birth are not listed on their mother’s card.
• A woman’s illegitimate children were not listed on the man’s card, unless he later formally recognised them.
• Personal record cards were not always updated immediately, which means that events that happened in quick succession (e.g. the birth of a child shortly before or after the father’s death) are sometimes not included.
• Certain information may be missing from personal record lists; residential addresses are not shown if the death occurred less than twenty years ago.
• During the digitisation of the Municipal Personal Records Database (Gemeentelijke Basisadministratie or GBA, now the Personal Records Database / Basisregistratie Personen or BRP), municipalities were not obliged to include children born before 1966 in their parents’ records. As a result, the number of children that appear on the personal record list of persons who married before 1966 may be incomplete.
All individuals, including foreigners, who passed away after 1939 and were registered as residents in a Dutch municipality at the time of their death are included in the NRO. However, there are a number of exceptions. If a person died abroad between 1939 and 1994, they would only be registered in the NRO if they were officially residing in the Netherlands at that time. If the person had emigrated during that period, the register will not contain any information about them.
Dutch nationals who died abroad after 1 October 1994 may be registered in the NRO, even if they had emigrated. This is referred to as a ‘non-resident registration’. Unfortunately, these lists may also be incomplete. The NRO also contains the personal record cards of Dutch victims of Dutch concentration camps during the Second World War.
The fees are set by the Dutch authorities and are based on Article 33 of the Personal Records Database Regulation. The revenue from this service is used to maintain the (digital) collection and provide information services.
All relevant and frequently asked questions are dealt with in this section.
You can read more detailed information about what is included on personal record cards on the bronpagina over persoonskaarten en persoonslijsten (source page about personal record cards and personal record lists in Dutch). If your question remains unanswered after reading these pages, please contact our Service Team. You can find the contact details on our contactpagina (contact page). We can also assist you in English.
Personal record cards from the NRO do not show religious affiliation, or the reasons for loss of Dutch nationality.
In digital extracts (personal record lists), recent address details cannot be shown if the death occurred less than twenty years ago.
However, the person’s own details are included, as well as the names of their parents (often with their places and dates of birth) and information about marriage(s), partner(s) and children.