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:Google Translate English title "Provisional search guide for genealogical research to Europeans (Dutch) in the Dutch East Indies (South and South East Asia)" (version: April 2018). To obtain a translation of the contents copy and paste the the URL in Google Translate, alternatively copy and paste the text.
:The "Provisional search guide" refers to a published guide in the Dutch language [https://igv.nl/product/asal-oesoel-cbg-onderzoeksgids/ ''Asal Oesoel''], published by Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie en Familiegeschiedenis [CBG] [Central Bureau for Genealogy and Family History], available through the IGV [https://igv.nl/winkel/ online shop], with a 50% discount for IGV members.
*Search online newspapers and books on the free Dutch language website [https://www.delpher.nl Delpher] , developed by the KB (National Library), "Ruim 100 130 miljoen pagina's uit Nederlandse kranten, boeken en tijdschriften" ["More than 100 130 million pages from Dutch newspapers, books and magazines"]. [https://www.delpher.nl/nlover-delpher/platformwat-zit-er-in-delpher/pageswat-zit-er-in-delpher/helpitemskranten#cc362 Wat zit er in Delpher?nid=385 Description page for Newspapers ] (Dutch language)], which advises the collection includes Dutch East Indies there are newspapers from Nederlands-Indië, with a link to [https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten#krantenoverzicht Krantenoverzicht] which then links to a pdf, [https://www.kb.nl/kbhtml/delpher/documentatie/beschikbare_kranten_alfabetisch.pdf List of newspapers] (Dutch language). The following titles were noted (but there may be others) with first and last dates, but no details of the extent of the holding:
:''Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië'' 2-7-1900 to 22-12-1957
:''Java government gazette'' 29-2-1812 to 10-8-1816. In English and Dutch. (The British were in control during this period.)
*[https://www.allsaintsjakarta.org/short-history All Saints Anglican Church, Jakarta], Indonesia. The present church building opened in 1831. The church became the Java Chaplaincy of the Diocese of Singapore in 1910, which covered a vast area.
:Indonesia is currently one of the Deaneries of the Anglican Diocese of Singapore.
*[https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267111 ''The factory of the English East India company at Bantam, 1602-1682''] by David Kenneth Bassett 1955 Phd Thesis School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). EThOS (British Library)
*[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://www.nzasia.org.nz/uploads/1/3/2/1/132180707/9_lewis_3.pdf "British trade to Southeast Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries revisited"] by Dianne Lewis. ''New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 11, 1 (June 2009)'': 49-59 nzasia.org.nz
*[https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2014/08/the-british-capture-of-java-1811.html "The British capture of Java, 1811"] British Library Asian and African studies blog 11 August 2014.
:[https://rafflesandjavablog.wordpress.com "Raffles and the British Invasion of Java"] "Footnotes and Sidelights from the Story of the British Interregnum in Java". The British, (being the East India Company in India) ruled Java to 1816.
===Historical books online===
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1922, see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], [[Hong Kong]], Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), Batavia and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
*[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A21093.0001.001?view=toc ''A courante of newes from the East India. A true relation of the taking of the ilands of Lantore and Polaroone in the parts of Bande in the East Indies by the Hollanders, which ilands had yeelded themselues subiect vnto the King of England. Written to the East India Company in England from their factors there''] 1622. A transcription. lib.umich.edu
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5ElpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''The Civil Wars of Bantam, Or, An Impartial Relation of All the Battels, Sieges and Other Remarkable Transactions, Revolutions and Accidents that Happened in the Late Civil Wars Between that King and His Eldest Son ...: Giving a Particular Account of the ... Siege and Taking of the City of Bantam and the English Factory There by the Young King, with the Help ... of the Dutch : in Several Letters from a Gentleman Residing for the East-India-Company at Bantam to a Merchant in London''] 1683 Google Books.
*''The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope'' edited and annotated by Captain Padfield Oliver 1891. [https://archive.org/details/voyageoffranoi01legu/page/n5/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/voyageoffranoi02legu Volume II]. Printed for the Hakluyt Society. Archive.org. The narrative commences 1689.
*[https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ#page/n323/mode/2up "The Management of the Dutch in India", page 309] ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India'' by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.72754/page/n5/mode/2up ''Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java : a series of letters reprinted from the "Times of India"''] by Tom Cringle. [Author: William Walker, see Preface] 1865. Archive.org, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also available in the [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000356A0 British Library Digital Collection].
*Navigation
**[https://archive.org/details/b22011614/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British mariner's directory and guide to the trade and navigation of the Indian and China seas. Containing instructions for navigating from Europe to India and China, and from port to port in those regions, and parts adjacent: With an account of the trade, mercantile habits, manners, and customs of the natives''] by H M Elmore, late Commander of the Varuna Extra East Indiaman 1802 Archive.org.
**''The China Sea Directory'' by the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London.
***''The China Sea Directory Volume I. Containing directions for the approaches to the China Sea and to Singapore, by the straits of Sunda, Banka, Gaspar, Carimata, Rhio, Varella, Durian, and Singapore'' by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nP4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 1867] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164960 3rd edition 1886] Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/684 ''Malacca Strait Pilot : comprising strait and its northern approaches, Singapore Strait, and the West Coast of Sumatra''] 1946 Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Possibly may be sample pages only.
*[https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1098_rspl_1883_0098/mode/2up "Extracts from a Report on the Volcanic Eruption in Sunda Strait by Commander the Honourable F. C. P. Vereker, H.M.S. 'Magpie,' Dated Singapore, October 22, 1883"] followed by [https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1098_rspl_1883_0099/mode/2up "Report from H.B.M. Consul at Batavia, Inclosing Extract Relating to the Volcanic Outbursts in the Sunda Strait, from the Logbook of the Steam-Ship Governor-General Loudon"] from [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.7511/page/n209/mode/2up Page 198 onwards] ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of London from November 15 1883 to April 24, 1884, Volume 36, published 1884'' Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinjungle02horn ''Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo''] by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum 1885 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/somenotesonjavai00boysrich ''Some Notes on Java and its Administration by the Dutch''] by Henry Scott Boys, late Bengal Civil Service 1892 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fareasterntropic00ireluoft/page/160/mode/2up Java] page 160 ''The Far Eastern Tropics, Studies in the Administration of Tropical Dependencies: Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Burma, the Federated Malay States, the Straits Settlements, French Indo-China, Java, the Phillipine Islands'' by Alleyne Ireland 1905 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833 ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org [[Ceylon]], [[Malaysia|Malaya]], Java, Sumatra
*''Java: Past & Present, a description of the most beautiful country in the world, its ancient history, people, antiquities, and products'' by Donald Maclaine Campbell, late British-Vice Consul, 1915 [https://archive.org/details/javapastpresentd01camp Volume I], [https://archive.org20thc-impressions-netherlands-india/details/javapastpresentd02camp Volume II] with a [https://archive.org/stream/javapastpresentd02camp#page/n691n5/mode/1up Geological 2up and Volcanos map] Archive.org*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1922, see [[China]].*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], [[Hong Kong]], Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), Batavia and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].*Restricted access, probably available to those in North America and some other countries: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001256055 ''Twentieth Century Impressions of Netherlands India: . Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources''] by Arnold Wright 1908 HathiTrust Digital Libraryand Oliver T Breakspear 1909 Archive. [https://books.google.comorg.au/books/about/Twentieth_century_impressions_of_Netherl.html?id=ygcZAQAAMAAJ Google Books edition [restricted<nowiki>]</nowiki>]
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183295 ''Through the Malay Archipelago''] by Emily Richings 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924010584682 ''Isles of the East : an Illustrated Guide : Australia, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra''] W Lorck Editor –in- Chief. Royal Packet Steam Navigation Company (KPM) 1912 Archive.org.
:*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:095/#page/309/mode/1up Map of Java]
:*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:095/#page/311/mode/1up Map of Netherlands East Indies]. May be very slow to open.
*[https://archive.org/details/1913-jusii-v42/page/321/mode/2up "Java- The Garden of the East"] by Lieut. F G C Campbell 40th Pathans page 311 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India'' Volume 42, 1913. Archive.org
*''Java: Past & Present, a description of the most beautiful country in the world, its ancient history, people, antiquities, and products'' by Donald Maclaine Campbell, late British-Vice Consul, 1915 [https://archive.org/details/javapastpresentd01camp Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/javapastpresentd02camp Volume II] with a [https://archive.org/stream/javapastpresentd02camp#page/n691/mode/1up Geological and Volcanos map] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ruralsanitationi00wats ''Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands''] by Sir Malcolm Watson 1915 Archive.org. There is a chapter on Sumatra relating to malaria.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. During WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden and subsequently was a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/94/mode/2up page 95], and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the 1915 Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra.
*[https://www.army.gov.au/our-heritage/history/primary-materials/1919-1938-between-wars ''Military Report on the Netherlands’ Possessions in the East Indies''] Prepared by the General Staff, War Office 1919. Website Previously available from the website of the Australian Army, located under Our Heritage/ History/Primary Materials/1919 to 1938 - Between the Wars/Documents. This appears to be an internal British Army document which is marked Confidential. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190409095125/https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/military_report_on_the_netherlands_possessions_in_the_east_indies_1919_0.pdf Direct link], now archived.
*[https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=389234 ''The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918''] by Kees van Dijk 2007. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924062748995 ''A Manual of Netherlands India (Dutch East Indies)''] by Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO 1920. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7 ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org
*Series: ''Economic and Social History of the World War : Dutch Series'', published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [https://archive.org/details/EconomicSocialHi0003Carn_n2g5 ''The Netherlands and the World War. Studies in the War History of a Neutral. Volume III The Effect of the War Upon the Colonies''] by Professor J H Carpentier Alting and W De Cock Buning 1928 Archive.org. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b543764?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library] with darker print. Includes the Netherlands East Indies.
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2650 ''In Java : and the neighboring islands of the Dutch East Indies''] by John Charles Van Dyke 1929. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". [https://archive.org/details/in-java-1929/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2917 ''The Agricultural Zoology of the Malay Archipelago : the animals injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture and forestry in the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines''] by Karel Willem Dammerman 1929. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. Probably may be sample pages only. [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Agricultural_Zoology_of_the_Malay_Ar.html?id=yXJMAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]*[https://archive.org/details/aclcpl000003a299/mode/2up ''The Coins of the Dutch East Indies: an Introduction to the study of the series''] by Sir John Bucknill 1931 Archive.org, Anna Digital Library Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatra, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only, and could be very few. Searchable, but not viewable, on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255884 HathiTrust Digital Library] and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RXhCAAAAIAAJ Google Books]. [https://www.shakariconnection.com/w-robert-foran-books.html About the author] shakariconnection.com*[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/1/38285 ''Belle of Bali being impressions of a pleasure cruise to the Dutch East Indies via Cochin, Colombo, Penang, and Singapore''] by Ardaser Sorabjee N. Wadia 1936. Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandsindia0000furn/page/n5/mode/2up ''Netherlands India : a study of plural economy''] by J S Furnivall, (John Sydenham), late Indian Civil Service Burma. 1939 reprinted 1967. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/islesofspice00clun ''Isles of Spice''] by Frank Clune 1942. Archive.org Lending Library. A trip in 1939.
*[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35900 ''French View of the Netherlands Indies''] by G.H. Bousquet ; translated from the French by Philip E. Lilienthal 1940. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.*[http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:398969 ''Netherlands Overseas Territories''] published by The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Information Department Papers No. 28. July 1941. Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections (Collection Caribbean Sources). Mainly about Indonesia.
*[https://archive.org/details/APocketGuideToTheNetherlandsEastIndies ''A Pocket Guide to the Netherlands East Indies''] by United States Army Service Forces, Special Service Division. 1943 Archive.org. Select one page option if viewing online. [https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/pocket-guide-netherlands-east-indies.html Transcribed version] history.navy.mil/research/library.
*''Netherlands East Indies'' by Naval Intelligence Division 1944. [https://archive.org/details/b3216886x_0001/page/n3/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/b3216886x_0002/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org. 2nd copies with some minor differences, perhaps printed in India [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70084 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70085 Volume 2] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77452/page/n5 ''Java Revisited''] by John Fabricius, (catalogued Fabricus) translated from the Dutch by M S Stephens 1947. Archive.org. The author was working in Java 1945-1946 as a war correspondent.
*Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume ''Senshi Sōsho'' (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. The three volumes relating to Indonesia have been translated into English, funded by the Corts Foundation. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210703030125/https://www.cortsfoundation.org/about-us/projects/senshi-sosho "Senshi Sōsho"] a page from The Corts Foundation, archived. (The Corts Foundation, a Dutch non profit organisation, following the 3rd publication has decided to conclude the activities as an autonomous foundation and is transferring its activities to the new ‘Philippus Corts Fonds’, now part of 'The Learned Society /[https://www.verenigingkitlv.nl KITLV]'. Leiden)
*[https://archive.org/details/pepperriceelepha00rick ''Pepper, Rice, and Elephants : a Southeast Asian journey from Celebes to Siam''] by Ruth Masters Rickover 1975 Archive.org Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay/page/n5/mode/2up ''Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong''] by John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/search?type=dismax&islandora_solr_search_navigation=1&f%5B0%5D=RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms%3A%22info%5C%3Afedora%5C/collection%5C%3Aaceh_books%22&f%5B1%5D=mods_accessCondition_restriction_on_access_ms%3A%22Download%5C%20provided.%22 Aceh Books Collection] [online] where using filter "download is availableprovided". Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections. Mainly Dutch language titles, but some English titles. There are also other Collections available which may contain relevant titles.
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/hiddenforcestory00coup/page/n6 ''The Hidden Force: a Story of Modern Java''] by Louis Couperus translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 1921 Archive.org. A novel. Originally written 1900.
