Municipal Archives
What is it?
The Roermond Municipal Archives preserves a variety of written records, Maps and photographs. In the municipal archive you can find information about:
- Your family's history (genealogy research);
- a residential home or business;
- a neighborhood or district;
- the municipality itself.
The municipal archives up to 1991 of the former municipalities of Haelen, Heythuysen, Hunsel, Roggel, and Neer located in the Roermond municipal archives. With a few exceptions, these archives are open to the public.
Leudal municipality archives
The archives of municipality of Leudal are not public. The archives of the municipality of Leudal contain the following archival collections:
- 1991-2006: Former municipalities of Haelen, Heythuysen, Hunsel, Roggel, and Neer
- From 2007: archives municipality of Leudal
What to do.
Contact Roermond Municipal Archives
Are you looking for records older than 20 years. Then please contact the Roermond Municipal Archives. You can find more information on the website of the Municipal Archives of Roermond . Please indicate clearly what information you are looking for. Usually the first certificates of civil status date from 1798 and the oldest population registers from 1850.
Contact municipality of Leudal
Do you have questions about a current file or would like to access files from after 1991? Then submit a request via the municipality's contact form. An official will then check which files are in the archives of the municipality of Leudal and which information is relevant and you may inspect. Archives become public only after transfer to the archive repository in Roermond.
Additional information
Family Tree Research
The municipality of Leudal has only non-public archives and date from after 1991.
Since all public archives from before 1991 for the former municipalities of Haelen, Heythuysen, Hunsel, Roggel, and Neer in the municipal archives of Roermond, that is where your research should begin. For civil registry records from before 1798 , please contact the Regional Historical Center Maastricht (RHCL) in Maastricht.