The Netherlands Antilles Genealogy

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Getting started with The Netherlands Antilles research
The Nederlandse Antillen (The Netherlands Antilles) are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of the West Indies islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, and formerly Aruba 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. For more historical and geographical information see: Netherlands Antilles

The capital city of The Netherlands Antilles is Willemstad

The countries motto is: Libertate unanimus (Latin: "Unified by freedom")

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


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