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| == Getting started with The Netherlands Antilles research ==
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| 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: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles Netherlands Antilles]
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| The capital city of The Netherlands Antilles is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemstad,_Netherlands_Antilles Willemstad]
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| The countries motto is: Libertate unanimus (Latin: "Unified by freedom")
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| == Jurisdictions ==
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| '''Islands'''
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| *[[Aruba|Aruba]]
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| *[[Bonaire|Bonaire]]
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| *[[Curaçao|Curaçao]]
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| *[[Saba|Saba]]
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| *[[Sint Eustatius|Sint Eustatius]]
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| *[[Sint Maarten|Sint Maarten]]
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| == Research Tools ==
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| '''Strategies'''
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| [[Introduction to Antilles Search Strategy|Introduction to Antilles Search Strategies]]
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| A wonderful web-site for doing research in the Antilles is:
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| *[http://books.google.com/books?id=oVpYKaynw5MC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=%22churches+found+on+sint+eustatius%22&source=web&ots=Co6cLN4772&sig=tKY7zwTl6TyDS7G0tYmWfg8lTH4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA167,M1 Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas]
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| Another great site is:
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| *[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~antwgw/ Netherlands Antilles GenWeb]
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