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''[[Caribbean]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[The Netherlands Genealogy|The Netherlands]]'' | ''[[Caribbean]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[The Netherlands Genealogy|The Netherlands]]'' | ||
Guide to '''{{PAGENAME}} ancestry, family history and genealogy:''' birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. | Guide to '''{{PAGENAME}} ancestry, family history and genealogy:''' birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. | ||
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=== Getting started === | |||
== 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. | 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 no longer exists. For more historical and geographical information see: | As of October 2010, the country of the Netherlands Antilles no longer exists. For more historical and geographical information see: | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles Netherlands Antilles] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles Netherlands Antilles] | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles] | ||
== Jurisdictions == | '''Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.''' The northern 60% of the island of Sint Maarten is called [[Saint Martin Genealogy|Saint Martin]] and is a part of the French Antilles (of [[France]]). The southern 40% of the island of [[The_Netherlands_Antilles_Genealogy|Sint Maarten]] was formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, since 2010 a constituent country of the [[Netherlands]].<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten Sint Maarten] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 21 July 2015).</ref> | ||
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[[Category:Caribbean]] [[Category:Netherlands]] [[Category:Countries_in_the_Caribbean]] [[Category:Netherlands_Antilles]] [[Category:Countries]] | [[Category:Caribbean]] [[Category:Netherlands]] [[Category:Countries_in_the_Caribbean]] [[Category:Netherlands_Antilles]] [[Category:Countries]] |
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