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Guide to '''Netherlands Antilles ancestry, family history and genealogy:''' birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. | Guide to '''Netherlands Antilles ancestry, family history and genealogy:''' birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. | ||
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The Netherlands Antilles (The Nederlandse Antillen) was a former autonomous part of [[Netherlands Genealogy|Netherlands]], consisting of the West Indies islands of [[Curaçao Genealogy|Curaçao]], [[Bonaire Genealogy|Bonaire]], and formerly [[Aruba Genealogy|Aruba]]—all off the north coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea—and [[Saba Genealogy|Saba]], [[Sint Eustatius Genealogy|Sint Eustatius]] and [[Sint Maarten Genealogy|Sint Maarten]] (part French)—east of the US Virgin Islands.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Netherlands Antilles," ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles (accessed 21 July 2015).</ref><ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles," ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles (accessed 21 July 2015).</ref> | The Netherlands Antilles (The Nederlandse Antillen) was a former autonomous part of [[Netherlands Genealogy|Netherlands]], consisting of the West Indies islands of [[Curaçao Genealogy|Curaçao]], [[Bonaire Genealogy|Bonaire]], and formerly [[Aruba Genealogy|Aruba]]—all off the north coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea—and [[Saba Genealogy|Saba]], [[Sint Eustatius Genealogy|Sint Eustatius]] and [[Sint Maarten Genealogy|Sint Maarten]] (part French)—east of the US Virgin Islands.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Netherlands Antilles," ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles (accessed 21 July 2015).</ref><ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles," ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles (accessed 21 July 2015).</ref> | ||
'''Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.''' The northern 60% of the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin is called [[Saint Martin Genealogy|Saint Martin]] and is a part of the French Antilles (of [[France]]). The southern 40% of the island of [[Sint Maarten Genealogy|Sint Maarten]] was formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, since 2010 a constituent country of the [[Netherlands]].<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Sint Maarten," ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten (accessed 21 July 2015).</ref> | '''Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.''' The northern 60% of the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin is called [[Saint Martin Genealogy|Saint Martin]] and is a part of the French Antilles (of [[France]]). The southern 40% of the island of [[Sint Maarten Genealogy|Sint Maarten]] was formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, since 2010 a constituent country of the [[Netherlands]].<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Sint Maarten," ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten (accessed 21 July 2015).</ref> | ||
==Netherlands Antilles Clickable Map== | ==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. | 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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