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*[http://www.tanap.net/content/archives/introduction.cfm TANAP] a website about the Archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC or Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie), 1602-1796. Includes a page about the holdings at the [http://www.tanap.net/content/archives/archives.cfm?ArticleID=202 Tamil Nadu Archives] in Madras. (For more details about the latter archives, refer [[Indian Libraries and Archives]])
**Various [http://www.tanap.net/content/voc/archnl/archnl_depart.htm muster and other records for the years 1700 [1720<nowiki>]</nowiki>-1791] for regions such as [http://www.tanap.net/content/voc/appendices/establishments.htm Bengal, Coromandel, Malabar] are available at the [http://www.tanap.net/content/archives/archives.cfm?ArticleID=209 National Archives of the Netherlands (Nationaal Archief)] in The Hague
*[http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/?lang=en VOC-Sea Voyagers] from the Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands) contains a searchable free database which is 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.
**This [http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/Inleiding.aspx?p=2 page] describes the four categories of sea-voyagers and states that the soldiers were mainly from [[German|Germany]]
: This same database also is available on the pay website Ancestry.
*[http://en.nationaalarchief.nl Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands)] with the associated website [http://www.gahetna.nl/en gahetna] which presents the collection of records at the Nationaal Archief.
**[http://www.gahetna.nl/en/contactformulier Contact page]
