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Archives Provara searches
One request from the research assistant searches every archive below in parallel, ranks the hits by how many of a person's recorded facts they contain, and returns each one with a ready citation. Nothing becomes a fact until a person opens the record and confirms it. This page is generated from the software itself, so the count is what the code does today.
12 archives live 8 connected and waiting on a key or a partner review · regions: US, NL/BE/FR/SR, World, SE, NZ, AU, DE, NO, FR · updated 2026-09-07
Live
| Status | Archive | What it holds | Licence for use here | Terms read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| live | Chronicling America (Library of Congress) Library of Congress · US |
Historic US newspapers 1690s–1963 with OCR text: obituaries, notices, local news | Public domain (US newspaper pages); LoC metadata CC0 | 2026-09-06 |
| live | Open Archives (207 archives: Netherlands, Belgium, France, Suriname + US indexes) Open Archieven (Coret Genealogie) · NL/BE/FR/SR |
Civil registration (birth, marriage, death), church books, population registers, notarial and tax rolls, militia — 207 archives | CC0 (person data); scans excluded | 2026-09-06 |
| live | VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · US |
8.4M veteran and dependent burials: names, birth/death dates, cemetery, branch, rank, wars | CC0 1.0 | 2026-09-06 |
| live | Wikidata (notable people & places) Wikimedia Foundation · World |
Structured facts on notable people (birth/death, places, relations) and every gazetteer place; CC0 | CC0 | 2026-09-06 |
| live | Internet Archive (texts) Internet Archive · World |
Digitised books: county and town histories, city directories, yearbooks, genealogies, church histories | Per item (public domain used; CC-NC items excluded from display) | 2026-09-06 |
| live | USGS GNIS place names (incl. historical) U.S. Geological Survey · US |
Every named US place, current and historical, with state, county and coordinates | Public domain (US federal) | 2026-09-06 |
| live | Reclaim The Records (US vital indexes, via Open Archives) Reclaim The Records / Open Archives · US |
Birth, marriage and death INDEXES released under FOIA: New York State & NYC, New Jersey, Missouri, Nebraska, Mississippi, Maryland, Connecticut; BIRLS veteran deaths | Public domain (Reclaim The Records) served as CC0 by Open Archives | 2026-09-06 |
| live | Riksarkivet (Sweden) — registers & archives Swedish National Archives · SE |
Indexed birth, marriage and death register entries (parish, date, parents), plus archive volumes and AI-transcribed text | Metadata CC0 1.0; images Public Domain Mark | 2026-09-06 |
| live | DigitalNZ / Papers Past (New Zealand) National Library of New Zealand · NZ |
Papers Past newspapers 1839–1980s (full text), plus NZ library, museum and archive collections | Developer terms permit commercial use of metadata with link-back; per-record usage flags honoured | 2026-09-06 |
| live | Queensland State Archives indexes (Australia) Queensland State Archives via data.qld.gov.au · AU |
Immigration and passenger indexes, naturalisations, wills, inquests, hospital deaths, gaol registers, orphanages, Boer War — 12 of 128 CC BY indexes searched live | CC BY 4.0 | 2026-09-06 |
| live | Library of Congress — Prints & Photographs Library of Congress · US |
1.2M+ photographs, prints and drawings: portraits, studio and news photography, places, military, FSA/OWI | Per item: only 'No known restrictions on publication' items are shown | 2026-09-06 |
| live | Wikimedia Commons (free-licensed photographs) Wikimedia Foundation · World |
147M free-licensed media files: historical photographs, portraits, maps, scanned documents from GLAM partners | Per file: public domain / CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only | 2026-09-06 |
Connected, not yet live
| Status | Archive | What it holds | Licence for use here | Terms read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| not yet connected | National Archives Catalog (NARA) U.S. National Archives · US |
Passenger lists, naturalizations, military service and pension files, homestead/land files, census images, federal records | Public domain (US federal government work) | 2026-09-06 |
| not yet connected | Digital Public Library of America DPLA · US |
Metadata for photographs, letters, diaries, yearbooks, local records from 4,000+ US institutions | Metadata open; items per holding institution | 2026-09-06 |
| not yet connected | Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek / Archivportal-D (Germany) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek · DE |
Finding aids and digitised objects from ~270 German archives, libraries and museums (emigration files, church-book finding aids, address books) | Metadata CC0; objects per-item rights statement | 2026-09-06 |
| not yet connected | FamilySearch (partner review pending) FamilySearch International · World |
Billions of historical records and the shared Family Tree — via hint → link-out only, per partner terms | FamilySearch partner terms: display title + confidence, link out, no storage beyond session | 2026-09-06 |
| not yet connected | PROV Victoria Collection API (Australia) Public Record Office Victoria · AU |
Wills and probate, inquests, land, immigration indexes — keyless JSON API works | UNCONFIRMED for paid use | 2026-09-06 |
| not yet connected | Trove (National Library of Australia) National Library of Australia · AU |
Australian newspapers and GLAM collections | UNCONFIRMED for paid use | 2026-09-06 |
| not yet connected | Digitalarkivet (Norway) Arkivverket · NO |
Censuses 1801–1920, church books, emigrant lists | UNCONFIRMED for paid use | 2026-09-06 |
| not yet connected | INSEE deaths file (France, 1970–) INSEE via data.gouv.fr · FR |
Every death in France since 1970: name, birth date/place, death date/place — Licence Ouverte 2.0 bulk files | UNCONFIRMED for paid use | 2026-09-06 |
Not searched by machine, on purpose
Ancestry, Find a Grave, Newspapers.com, Fold3, MyHeritage, Findmypast, Geneanet, BillionGraves, FreeBMD / FreeREG / FreeCEN publish terms that forbid automated access. Provara never fetches them by machine. When one of them holds the record, the assistant tells you exactly where to look and you bring the record in yourself.
Every licence above was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. If you run an archive and would like Provara to search it, write to support@provaragenealogy.com.