Collect the families
Your Leiden badges
Collect all six family badges to unlock a keepsake Leiden Collector's Certificate.
Support a few archive records (€0.50 each) to earn a badge — OR earn many for free via the quizzes and extras below.
Your voyageYour Progress
This tracks your own progress, not history: everyone starts at the quay, boards the Speedwell as you support records, and reaches the Mayflower once a badge is earned. (The real Speedwell set out with the Mayflower in 1620 but had to turn back — some passengers crowded onto the Mayflower, the rest stayed behind.)
Collect the familiesYour family badges
Support a few archive records on a family page to earn that family's badge.
Collect the peopleYour person badges
Every person on a family page has their own badge too — support every record available for them, however many there are, and it's earned.
Collect the extrasYour special badges
A few extra badges that don't need any support at all — just a bit of curiosity.
The last step
Leiden Collector's Certificate
Collect all six family badges to unlock this.
You've collected all six families. For €5 you can unlock a keepsake Leiden Collector's Certificate with your name and all six badges — a nice thing to save or share, not a record of ancestry.
Want to sponsor the site with more than €5? Choose your own amount.
After paying and entering your code above, press "I've paid" to generate your certificate. This runs entirely in your browser, so keep this tab open until you've downloaded it.
Want a link that still works in a year, even if you clear your browser?
Missing a badge?
Redeem a code
If something went wrong and a badge didn't appear, contact the site owner — she can hand you a one-time code to fix it here.