Archive guide · DE
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek / Archivportal-D (Germany)
connected, not yet live
What it holds
Finding aids and digitised objects from ~270 German archives, libraries and museums (emigration files, church-book finding aids, address books)
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
- Licence for use here
- Metadata CC0; objects per-item rights statement
- Attribution
- Link to the DDB item and name the holding institution
- Cost to search
- free (self-issued key)
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://api.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/OpenAPI/
Status: needs DDB_API_KEY (free: register at deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de → Meine DDB → API key). Until it is live, Provara tells you when this archive is where to look and you bring the record in yourself.
How to search it in Provara
- Archive catalogues and finding aids: ask Provara what an archive holds on a family or a place.
- Digitised books and local histories: ask Provara to look for a family in county histories and directories.
- Historical photographs: ask Provara for a photograph of a place or an event your family was part of.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Archive catalogues and finding aids — Descriptions of what an archive holds, so you know what to request before you travel or write.
- Digitised books and local histories — County histories, city directories, yearbooks, published genealogies: where a family appears in print.
- Historical photographs — Portraits, places and events held by libraries and archives, free to view and often free to reuse.
No card needed. Build and source your tree free; search these archives free; the assistant's research runs on tokens.
Every licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.