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*[http://www.academia.edu/1787722/_Gold-Leaf_Flattery_Calcuttan_Dust_and_a_Brand_New_Flagpole._Five_Little-Known_VOC_Collections_in_Asia_on_India_and_Ceylon_Itinerario_36_1_2012_ "Gold-Leaf Flattery, Calcuttan Dust, and a Brand New Flagpole: Five Little-Known VOC Collections in Asia on India and Ceylon"] by Lennart Bes ''Itinerario'' Volume 36 Issue 01 April 2012, pp 91 - 106.
*[http://en.nationaalarchief.nl Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands)]
:Under Research[https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoekhulpen/overzicht-van-archieven-over-de-voc-in-het-nationaal-archief#collapse-5951 "Overzicht van archieven over de VOC in het Nationaal Archief"] Includes Databases.:[https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoekhulpen/scheepswrakken Page with details of the Archives] including:*[https:/ Indexes there /www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/1.04.02 1.04.02 Inventaris van het archief van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), 1602-1795 (1811)]: There are a number of '''databases''' relevant to India, including under the headings Oost-Indië, and VOC. :*In particular [https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/en/research/index/nt00444?searchTerm= '''VOC: Opvarenden'''] (English version) Searchable database. From the [https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/index/nt00444?searchTerm= Dutch version] there is a [https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoekhulpen/voc-opvarenden Research guide in Dutch] consisting of an Introductory section and four additional sections. The [https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoekhulpen/voc-opvarenden#collapse-8034 Google translate English version] however only translates the initial section, so you will need to copy and paste the remainder in Use [https://translate.google.com.au Google Translate], unless your web browser automatically performs this function.::As far as can be determined the above database is the current version (at 2019/11) of a previous Nationaal Archief separate website "VOC-Sea Voyagers" which advised it was a searchable free database which was a comprehensive index of ships’ pay-ledgers. The ship's pay-ledgers form the basis of the personnel-administration of the 'VOC' or Dutch East India Company. For each departing ship all employees sailing with her were registered, amounting to some 655.000 persons over the period 1700-1794. There were four categories of sea-voyagers and there was a statement that the soldiers were mainly from German-speaking areas. The previous website is available [https://web.archive.org/web/20170114183520/http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/ archived] in Dutch including [https://web.archive.org/web/20161227172844/http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/Inleiding.aspx Inleiding] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20161227172844/http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/Inleiding.aspx Wat vind ik in de database?] Use Google Translate [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20161227172844%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fvocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl%2FInleiding.aspx Preface] and [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20160421072822%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fvocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl%2FInleiding.aspx%3Fp%3D2 What can I find in the database?]
::There is a database on Ancestry <ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61290/ Netherlands, Dutch East India Company Crew Index, 1633-1795] Ancestry. The source is stated to be a database VOC-Opvarenden from WieWasWie (a pay website).</ref> (pay website) which is believed to be the above database, although Ancestry does not credit the Nationaal Archief as the source.
:Also see the website TANAP above for more details of records at the Nationaal Archief.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20190418125051/http://www.gahetna.nl/en/externe_onderzoekers Independent research at the Nationaal Archief] [paid research] Archived link at 18 April 2019 from the now archived Nationaal Archief website gahetna.nl
*[http://www.cbg.nl/index.php/EN?taal=EN Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG)]. Retrieved 15 September 2014
*[https://www.wiewaswie.nl Wie Was Wie] Similar to a Dutch findmypast<ref>Dent, Gearoidin. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190522142736/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/521198/ Christoffel Jochem Salder] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'', 25 March 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2019, archived.</ref>
*[http://hdl.handle.net/1885/11102 ''The Dutch East India Company and the Straits of Malacca, 1700-1784 : trade and politics in the eighteenth century''] by Dianne Lewis 1970 PhD Thesis Australian National University. Link to a download ANU.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/1887/12087 ''Fort Cochin in Kerala 1750-1830 : the social condition of a Dutch community in an Indian milieu''] by Anjana Singh. June 2007 Doctoral thesis, Leiden University [Digital] Repository. Subsequently published in the series TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction ; v. 13.
