The Netherlands Antilles Genealogy

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

For information about records for non-Christian religions in the Netherlands Antilles, go to the Religious Records page.

Country Information
The Netherlands Antilles (The Nederlandse Antillen) was a former autonomous part 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.

Sint Maarten/Saint Martin. The northern 60% of the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin 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.

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The Netherlands Antilles Clickable Map
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in The Netherlands Antilles. Click on a place below to go to the corresponding Wiki article listing more information.

Jurisdictions
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in The Netherlands Antilles. Click on a place below to go to the corresponding Wiki article listing more information.

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FamilySearch Resources
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