"In order that the municipal, city, district and other municipal archives are perceived in the increasingly digital world and that interested parties can find on the Internet not only the state records in Archive Portal D, it is essential that the non-state archives participate in Archivportal D as broadly as possible".

At the 84th German Archive Day in Magdeburg, Archive Portal-D was opened to the public on September 24th. The Internet at www. archivportal-d.de freely accessible portal enables extensive and free research in Germany's archives.