Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands Genealogy

Caribbean The Netherlands

Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Getting started
The Nederlandse Antillen (The Netherlands Antilles) was a former autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of the West Indies islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, and formerly Aruba—all off the north coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea—and Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten (part French)—east of the US Virgin Islands.

As of October 2010, the country of the Netherlands Antilles no longer exists. For more historical and geographical information see:


 * Netherlands Antilles
 * Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles

Sint Maarten/Saint Martin. The northern 60% of the island of Sint Maarten is called Saint Martin and is a part of the French Antilles (of France). The southern 40% of the island of Sint Maarten was formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, since 2010 a constituent country of the Netherlands.

Jurisdictions
Islands


 * Aruba
 * Bonaire
 * Curaçao
 * Saba
 * Sint Eustatius
 * Sint Maarten

Research Tools
Strategies

Introduction to Antilles Search Strategies

A wonderful web-site for doing research in the Antilles is:


 * Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas

Another great site is:


 * Netherlands Antilles GenWeb


 * (helpful tools and resources, gazetteers)
 * (language dictionary, handwriting guide or tutorial, etc.)

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