Open Archives is a remote MCP server that gives an AI agent 22 tools, among them browse_transcriptions, get_archives, get_births. It answers at https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/ over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 6 of 6 times since 11 September 2026; the last check, on 21 October 2026, succeeded.
MCP server for Open Archives: Dutch genealogical records and historical page transcriptions.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
browse_transcriptions | Browse transcriptions hierarchically Returns a hierarchical browse of available page transcriptions. Mirrors `/transcripties/lijst/`. Three modes, depending on the supplied filters: * No filter — top-level list of source archives ordered by Inputs: archive_code, archive_number, lang |
get_archives | List all archives with statistics Returns an array of all participating archives including their archive code (used in other API calls), name, homepage URL, Twitter handle, ISIL code and search URL on Open Archives. Note: version 1.1 adds I |
get_births | Finds birth records Inputs: name, eventyear, eventplace, eventprovince, number_show, start |
get_births_years_ago | List births that occurred a specified number of years ago Returns a list of birth records for people born exactly the specified number of years ago from today. Note: version 1.1 uses `archive_code` instead of `archive` and includes the arch Inputs: years, number_show |
get_breakdown | Cross-tabulation aggregation grouped by one dimension Returns record counts filtered by any combination of archive, source type, event type, event place and year range, grouped by ONE chosen dimension (archive, sourcetype, eventtype, place Inputs: group_by, archive_code, sourcetype, eventtype, eventplace, year_start |
get_census_data | Dutch census data for a place and year Retrieves census data for a Dutch place or municipality for the census year nearest to the specified year. Available census years: 1795, 1830, 1840, 1849, 1859, 1869, 1879, 1889, 1899. Data sources: Vo Inputs: year, place, province, gg_uri, richness |
get_comment_stats | Comment count statistics Returns the total number of validated comments made on records. When no archive_code is provided, the global total is returned. When an archive code is provided, the count for that archive is returned. Note: version Inputs: archive_code |
get_deaths | Finds death records Inputs: name, eventyear, eventplace, number_show, start |
get_event_type_stats | Record count statistics per event type Returns statistics about event types. Without an archive_code all event types across the entire dataset are returned with total counts. With an archive_code, only event types for that archive are retur Inputs: archive_code |
get_family_name_stats | Family name frequency statistics Returns the number of times family names appear in events for the selected source types, place and period. Results are ordered by frequency. Open Archives uses this endpoint to power its family name frequenc Inputs: eventplace, eventyearstart, eventyearend, eventtype, number_show, lang |
get_first_name_stats | First name frequency statistics for a given place and year Returns the top-X list of first names in the specified place and year. When a person has multiple forenames, only the first is counted. Currently only Amsterdam is available as a pl Inputs: eventplace, eventyear, number_show |
get_historical_weather | Historical weather measurements for a date and location Returns historical weather measurements from the nearest Dutch weather station for the specified date and coordinates. Data sources are the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute ( Inputs: date, longitude, latitude, lang |
get_marriages | Finds marriage records of couples (bride or groom) Inputs: name1, name2, eventyear, eventplace, number_show, start |
get_profession_stats | Profession frequency statistics Returns the number of times professions appear in records for the selected period and place. Results are ordered by frequency. Open Archives uses this endpoint to power its profession frequency visualisation. Inputs: eventplace, eventyearstart, eventyearend, number_show, lang |
get_record_stats | Record count statistics per archive Returns record count statistics. When no archive is specified, all archives are listed with their total number of records. When an archive code is specified, the source types available for that archive ar Inputs: archive_code |
get_source_type_stats | Record count statistics per source type Returns statistics about source types. Without an archive_code all source types across the entire dataset are returned with total record counts. With an archive_code, only source types for that archiv Inputs: archive_code |
match_record | Match a person to birth and death records Searches the genealogical dataset by exact name and birth year and returns the Open Archives URIs of birth records, death records and registrations in which the person is mentioned. Inputs: name, birthyear, lang |
search_records | Search genealogical records Searches the genealogical dataset and returns found persons and records. Supports filtering by archive, source type, event place, birth place, relation type and country. Results are pageable and sortable. Note: v Inputs: name, archive_code, not_archive, number_show, sourcetype, eventplace |
search_transcriptions | Full-text search across page transcriptions Performs a full-text search across the page transcriptions of historical documents indexed by Open Archives. Mirrors the search UI at `/transcripties/zoek.php`. Results are ordered by Elasticsearc Inputs: q, archive_code, archive_number, inventory_number, year_start, year_end |
show_record | Show a single genealogical record Returns one specific genealogical record in JSON format (UTF-8). The response conforms to the Archive 2 All (A2A) model. Also available as XML, GEDCOM, Turtle (TTL) and N-Triples (NT) by changing the file e Inputs: archive, identifier, lang |
show_transcription | Retrieve a single transcription Returns the full transcript of a single page along with its source citation. Mirrors `/transcripties/toon/<id>`. AI-generated summaries are deliberately not returned by this endpoint. Inputs: id, lang |
view_transcription | Open one or more transcribed document pages in an interactive deep-zoom viewer with the transcription text alongside. Pass page identifiers returned by search_transcriptions / browse_transcriptions (form <ISIL>_<archive>_<page>, e.g. NL-Sdm Inputs: ids, highlight_term |
Every block below points at https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http open-archives https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/
{
"mcpServers": {
"open-archives": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"open-archives": {
"url": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"open-archives": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"open-archives": {
"url": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"open-archives": {
"serverUrl": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"open-archives": {
"url": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"
}
}
}name: Open Archives
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: Open Archives
type: streamable-http
url: https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/{
"mcpServers": {
"open-archives": {
"httpUrl": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"open-archives": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"open-archives": {
"url": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcp.openarchieven.nl%2F&type=streamable_http&id=open-archives&name=Open%20Archives
It answered our last check on 21 October 2026 in 120 ms. Over 6 checks since 11 September 2026 it answered 6. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
22, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 13 September 2026: browse_transcriptions, get_archives, get_births, get_births_years_ago, get_breakdown, get_census_data, get_comment_stats, get_deaths, and 14 more.
It answered our last check on 21 October 2026 in 120 ms. Over 6 checks since 11 September 2026 it answered 6.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: io.github.coret. Endpoint host: mcp.openarchieven.nl. ARD identifier: urn:air:io.github.coret:mcp:openarchieven-mcp-server.
First indexed 10 September 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.