Search 13 public genealogy archives at once

Type a name and, if you know it, a place and years. One search goes to every archive below in parallel — newspapers, the National Archives, veteran burials, civil registers and more — and every hit comes back with the archive's own citation. Free, with nothing to sign up for.

What gets searched

• Chronicling America (Library of Congress) — Historic US newspapers 1690s–1963 with OCR text: obituaries, notices, local news
• National Archives Catalog (NARA) — Passenger lists, naturalizations, military service and pension files, homestead/land files, census images, federal records
• Open Archives (207 archives: Netherlands, Belgium, France, Suriname + US indexes) — Civil registration (birth, marriage, death), church books, population registers, notarial and tax rolls, militia — 207 archives
• VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator — 8.4M veteran and dependent burials: names, birth/death dates, cemetery, branch, rank, wars
• Wikidata (notable people & places) — Structured facts on notable people (birth/death, places, relations) and every gazetteer place; CC0
• Internet Archive (texts) — Digitised books: county and town histories, city directories, yearbooks, genealogies, church histories
• USGS GNIS place names (incl. historical) — Every named US place, current and historical, with state, county and coordinates
• Reclaim The Records (US vital indexes, via Open Archives) — Birth, marriage and death INDEXES released under FOIA: New York State & NYC, New Jersey, Missouri, Nebraska, Mississippi, Maryland, Connecticut; BIRLS veteran deaths
• Riksarkivet (Sweden) — registers & archives — Indexed birth, marriage and death register entries (parish, date, parents), plus archive volumes and AI-transcribed text
• DigitalNZ / Papers Past (New Zealand) — Papers Past newspapers 1839–1980s (full text), plus NZ library, museum and archive collections
• Queensland State Archives indexes (Australia) — Immigration and passenger indexes, naturalisations, wills, inquests, hospital deaths, gaol registers, orphanages, Boer War — 12 of 128 CC BY indexes searched live
• Library of Congress — Prints & Photographs — 1.2M+ photographs, prints and drawings: portraits, studio and news photography, places, military, FSA/OWI
• Wikimedia Commons (free-licensed photographs) — 147M free-licensed media files: historical photographs, portraits, maps, scanned documents from GLAM partners

Results are shown exactly as each archive returned them, with that archive's citation and licence. Provara asserts nothing here: a hit is a lead to read, not a fact about anyone. Nothing about your search is stored.