MCP server for the Open Archives genealogical search engine, including full-text page transcriptions of historical documents.
Openarchieven MCP server is a hosted integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. MCP server for the Open Archives genealogical search engine, including full-text page transcriptions of historical documents.
Production-grade hybrid MCP + HTTP + SSE server generated from the Open Archives OpenAPI specification. Covers genealogical records (births, deaths, marriages, censuses), archive statistics, historical weather, and full-text page transcriptions of historical documents.
A schema-aware server that automatically converts the OpenAPI specification into callable tools and exposes them through multiple transports:
Once Openarchieven is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
search_records — Search genealogical recordsshow_record — Show a single genealogical recordmatch_record — Match a person to birth and death recordsget_births_years_ago — List births from N years agoget_births — Find birth recordsget_deaths — Find death recordsget_marriages — Find marriage recordsget_archives — List all archives with statisticsget_record_stats — Record count per archiveget_source_type_stats — Record count per source typeget_event_type_stats — Record count per event typeget_comment_stats — Comment count statisticsBeing a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.
You will need 2 environment variables: OPENAPI_PATH, REDIS_URL. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Plenty of search and retrieval servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Openarchieven's toolset — search_records, show_record, match_record and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by coret; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_records | Search genealogical records |
| show_record | Show a single genealogical record |
| match_record | Match a person to birth and death records |
| get_births_years_ago | List births from N years ago |
| get_births | Find birth records |
| get_deaths | Find death records |
| get_marriages | Find marriage records |
| get_archives | List all archives with statistics |
| get_record_stats | Record count per archive |
| get_source_type_stats | Record count per source type |
| get_event_type_stats | Record count per event type |
| get_comment_stats | Comment count statistics |
| get_family_name_stats | Family name frequency |
| get_first_name_stats | First name frequency |
{
"mcpServers": {
"openarchieven": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "tsx"],
"env": {
"OPENAPI_PATH": "your-value",
"REDIS_URL": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| OPENAPI_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
| REDIS_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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