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**Dutch language [https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/nieuws/op-zoek-naar-je-antilliaanse-roots/ article] from the website WieWasWie, a Dutch pay genealogical website. Using [https://translate.google.com Google Translate] gives "WieWasWie contains the civil status records of the six islands that were part of the former Netherlands Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, St Eustatius and St Maarten. To search in all records of the Antillean civil status, under 'Advanced search', under 'Country', first select World, and then under 'Region' Netherlands Antilles."
**Search online newspapers and books on the free Dutch language website [https://www.delpher.nl Delpher], developed by the KB (National Library), "Ruim 130 miljoen pagina's uit Nederlandse kranten, boeken en tijdschriften" ["More than 130 million pages from Dutch newspapers, books and magazines"]. [https://www.delpher.nl/over-delpher/wat-zit-er-in-delpher/wat-zit-er-in-delpher/kranten#cc362 Wat zit er in Delpher?] (Dutch language) advises there are newspapers “de Antillen, Amerika en Suriname”, 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).
**[https://archive.org/details/aruba?and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22 English language items from the Aruba Collection (Coleccion Aruba)], the documentary heritage portal for the island nation of Aruba, in the Internet Archive, Archive.org. Some of the items relate to the West Indies more generally.
==Other records==
*The [[Society of Genealogists]] holds some records relating to the West Indies. Search the catalogue to see what is currently available. The holding at November 2012 is set out in the archived webpage [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103071637/http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/westindies.shtml Overseas: West Indies]. Some of the sources are from ''Caribbeana'' - all of these volumes are available online, refer [[West Indies#Historical books online|below]]. Also includes the book ''Tracing your West Indian ancestors: sources in the Public Record Office: PRO readers’ guide, no. 11'' [by Guy Grannum, 1995, subsequently republished as ''Tracing your Caribbean ancestors : a National Archives guide'' 2012], now available online, see [[West Indies#Historical books online|below]].
***[https://www.dloc.com/title-sets/AA00079373 ''San Fernando Gazette''] Trinidad 1850 to 1896.
*[https://westindiacommittee.org/historyheritageculture/archives/ West Indian History, Heritage and Culture: Archive] the West India Committee’s online portal includes books in pdf format.
*[https://archive.org/details/aruba?and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22 English language items from the Aruba Collection (Coleccion Aruba)], the documentary heritage portal for the island nation of Aruba, in the Internet Archive, Archive.org. Some of the items relate to the West Indies more generally.
*''Calendar of State Papers, Colonial series. America and West Indies. Preserved by the Public Record Office'' [United Kingdom]. Most Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa16offigoog ''1574-1660''] 1860, [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol5 Volume 5, ''1661-1668''] 1880 and [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol7 Volume 7, ''1669-1674''] 1889, both transcribed editions BHO, [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa19offigoog ''1675-1676 and Addenda 1574-1674''] 1893 all edited by W Noel Sainsbury; [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa08offigoog ''1677-1680''] edited by W Noel Sainsbury and WJ Fortescue 1896: [https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep168185grea/page/n3/mode/2up ''1681-1685''] reprint edition, first published 1898,[https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa18offigoog ''1685-1688''] 1899, [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa14offigoog ''1689-1692''] 1901, [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa00fortgoog ''January 1693-14 May 1696''] 1908, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924087794685 ''15 May 1696- 31 October 1697''] 1904, [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa13offigoog ''27 October 1697-31 December 1698''] 1905, the latter all edited by W J Fortescue;
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