AlleDrenten is the Drenthe Archive (Dutch: Drents Archief) Netherlands Online Genealogy Records website. All their records are free. They have digitized birth, marriage, and death records for Drenthe from 1600 to 1962. They have Drenthe censuses, tax records, inheritance records, and much more.

At AlleDrenten you can either Search records or Browse scans. The scans will indicate if they are also searchable.

Online records are divided into availability by time period.

SEARCH RECORDS options include:

After 1811 online records:

• Registry Office records including births, marriages, and deaths: 1811-1962

• Population Registers/censuses

• Notarial deeds 1810-1915

• Inheritance Tax Records (Successie Memories) 1806-1928

• Veenhuizen and Ommerschans (Penal Colonies)

• Benevolent Society

1600-1811:

• Church Registers, baptisms, marriages, and burials 1600-1811

• 30E / 40E Penning 1682-1797 tax on purchase and sale of property with possible documentation of family relationships

• Haardstede Money 1672-1804, tax on households

• Studded countries in 1612, tax on population of Drenthe when it merged with the Dutch Republic

Before 1600:

• Certificates/Deeds, 1040-1600 takes you to Cartago.nl/nl/

BROWSE SCANS options:

• Browse the Public Records (scanned records by community)

• Browse other Scans 

  • Tax Registers

  • Population

  • Civil status

  • Miscellaneous

  • Land tax

  • Tickets

  • Church Registers

  • Newspapers

  • Benevolent Society

  • Notaries

  • Provincial government

  • Sources of law

  • Rijkswerkinrichting Devices Veenhuizen / Ommerschans

  • Succession Memories

  • Entrances

You can order copies of scans and they will be emailed to you free of charge as a downloadable high-resolution file. If you need copies of pleadings/inheritance/deeds they have instructions for requests and payments.