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: 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. 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://dutchshipsandsailors.nl Dutch Ships and Sailors] Includes VOC. Includes databases to Search. dutchshipsandsailors.nl
::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
*[httphttps://www.cbg.nl/index.php/EN?taal=EN CBG : Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis], formerly called Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (CBG) (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG)]. Retrieved 15 September 2014Dutch language.
*[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, 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/monumentalremain00alex/page/n7 ''The Monumental Remains of the Dutch East India Company in the Presidency Of Madras 1664-1824''] by Alexr. Rea. Reprint edition, first published 1897. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.511637/page/n5 ''Dutch Activities In The East''] 1945. Full title: ''Dutch Activities in the East, seventeenth century : being a "Report on the records relating to the East in the State Archives in The Hague," with two appendices'' by Frederick Charles Danvers. Edited with an introd. by Nihar-ranjan Ray. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/das/#page=2&accessor=toc&source=1&view=imagePane ''Dutch-Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18th Centuries Volume I . Introductory volume''] by J.R. Bruijn, F.S. Gaastra, I. Schöffer, with assistance from ACJ Vermeulen. Translation by Mrs J Harris 1987. From ''Resources Huygens ING''.
*[https://archive.org/details/instructionsfro00maetgoog ''Instructions from the Governor-General and Council of India to the Governor of Ceylon, 1656-1665''] Translated by Sophia Pieters. [The Government of Netherlands India]. 1908 Archive.org
