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DeWitt Genealogy Web Ring
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Home Page of the Web Ring (which we are already a member) for genealogy
research on the DeWitt family members.
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5521/dewitt.htm
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The DeWitt Surname Resource Center
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This is the DeWitt Collaboration Project and it aims to unite as
many DeWitt lines as possible. It is a well developed award winning
site and is worth visting.
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com~geneal/src/DeWitt/index.html#UP
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DeWitt Family Homepage
(dewitt-ancestry.freeservers.com)
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Find out more about the brothers Cornelious and Johan DeWitt of Dordrecht,
Holland. They were said to be Calvinist, often known as Huguenots. See
the family crest or coat of arms the brothers Cornelious and Johan DeWitt
and the family crest of other DeWitts.
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http://www.dewitt-ancestry.freeservers.com/
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Centraal Bureau Voor Genelogie
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Central Bureau of Genealogy. Genealogy repository in the Netherlands.
Only problem, most of the best information provided is in Dutch.
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http://www.cbg.nl
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The ‘Indische Genealogische Vereniging (IGV)’ [The Dutch Indies Genealogical
Association]
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This organisation is an independent association formed to perform
genealogical research into Dutch Indies family history.
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http://www.igv.nl
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The Olive Tree Genealogy Homepage
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Click on 'New Netherland' in Main Menu. It has interesting articles
on genealogical research in the Netherlands. Dutch names and Patronymics
(An article says, DeWitt means 'the white one').
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/
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Rootsweb - DeWitt
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Rootsweb has a special section for the DeWitt name. In it there are
all kinds of resources and links.
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http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/d/e/DEWITT/
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Dutch Home Pages by Family Names
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Genealogy Research Center specialised on Dutch Families and related
topics .
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http://www.members.tripod.com/!Don_Arnoldus/index.html
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South African Genealogy Home Page
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Conrod Mercer provides detail information on how to research your
genealogy and family history in South Africa. A must see if you have
ancestors from the multiracial country of South Africa.
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http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/
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Stamouers of South Africa
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For South African family and genealogical research you will be able
to get some facts about our stamouers / progenitors, who were at the
Cape prior to 1745. It is astounding that there is such a common genetic
pool among descendants of the early Cape. Click on VOC to find the most
informative article on the 'Concise History of the VOC' (Dutch East
Indian Company) written by Gerda Pieterse.
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http://www.geocities.com/sa_stamouers/mainE.htm
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Cyndi's list of Genealogy sites on the internet
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This very interesting site has a concise collection of all sorts
of links and resources relating to genealogy. Highly recommended for
seriously interested researchers.
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http://www.CyndisList.com/
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Ancestry.com
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American based commercial site. Has good article for beginners. Reviews
and provides research tools, name search & portal to other researchers
web sites. Their ancestry world tree is interesting.
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http://www.ancestry.com
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Genealogy.com
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American based commercial site. Has good article for beginners. Reviews
and provides research tools, name search & portal to other researchers
web sites. Includes "Ask the Genealogist" and "How-to" articles.
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http://www.genealogy.com
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The Genealogy Home Page
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American based commercial site sponsored by Family Tree Maker Online.
Has list of online resources, libraries, maps, geography and societies.
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http://www.genhomepage.com
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Heartland Genealogy Society
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The official genealogical web ring home page for Heartland, Geocities.
Has lots of members, resources and interesting articles, particularly
on origins of surnames.
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2416
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Family Search
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Family search's internet family service is created by the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has very large database of
genealogy listing all over the world. Highly Recommended.
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http://www.familysearch.org
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Barry Pereira's
"Serani" Home Page
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Barry is researching family trees of Seranis (Eurasians) of Singapore,
Penang and Malacca, who have been in this part of the world since 1511.
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http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/e/r/Barry-P-Pereira/
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Family History in India
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This web site is created by Cathy Day of Canberra, Australia. This
informative website is appropriate for people tracing their British,
European and Anglo-Indian family history in India, Burma, Pakistan and
Bangladesh.
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http://www.ozemail.com.au/~clday/index.html
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Kyle Joustra's website
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A concise website for genealogical information of the Dutch Burghers
from Ceylon. Kyle makes use of the DBU Journals and have included details
from DRC Wolvendaal Registries, various Books, genealogical and occupational
information provided by numerous people for his project.
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http://www.users.bigpond.com/kjjoustra/Genealogy1.htm
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FIND OUTABOUT HERALDRY & COATS-OF-ARMS
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South African Heraldry:
Coats-of-Arms
(Suid-Afrikaanse heraldiek: Familiewapens)
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List of Coats-of-Arms of South African families. This site contains
about 500 coats-of-arms of families of various origins.
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/8140/lys.htm
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Jerry's Junkyard
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This award winning but graphic intensive site (may be slow to load
for some surfers) is own by Jerry D'Cruz. Jerry is a Portuguese Eurasian
and now working in the wilds of Borneo. His site has some interesting
collection of Heraldry, Eurasian Cuisine and includes the D' Cruz genealogy
discussion board.
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http://surf.to/jerry.com
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Heraldry on the Internet
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This site is designed to help you conduct heraldry research on the
Internet.
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http://digiserve.com/heraldry/index.htm
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Heraldica.org
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A site dedicated to heraldry in all forms and in all places.
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http://www.heraldica.org/
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Ask Jeevees
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Ask him anything and if he can't answer you, he will direct you to
some of the closest match on the popular search engines.
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http://askjeeves.com
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Dutch Portuguese Colonial History
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Marco Ramerini from Italy has done detail research on Dutch and Portuguese
history all over the world, including MALACCA, Ceylon(Sri Lanka), India,
Brazil, Formosa (Taiwan), Indonesia, New York (Amsterdam), Timor, SOUTH
AFRICA, Asia, etc. His web site also includes many nice pictures and
maps. Highly Recommended.
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/6497/
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The Netherlands Board of Tourism
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Click here if you plan to visit Holland. Get to know all about the
Dutch Monarchy, the Palaces, the Queen and the other members of the
Royal Family. Very well developed web site on the Dutch Manarchy, a
must see.
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http://www.visitholland.com/
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Dutch East Indies Informationpoint
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They have almost everything you need to know about the Dutch Eurasians
from Indonesia.
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http://home.wxs.nl/~vdbroeke/
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Dutch-English On-line Dictionary
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Written translation for Dutch-English-Dutch. This will be useful
in the research of Dutch ancestries, resources and documents that are
written in Dutch.
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http://dictionaries.travelag.com/DutchEnglish
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Deciphering Old Handwriting
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Learn how to decipher old handwrittings from ancient records. Useful
tool when reading old hand written documents obtained from research
in libraries and archives.
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http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html
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Portuguese Eurasian Association
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Find out about the Portuguese Eurasian community of Melaka. Web Site
by Gerard Fernandis.
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http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Paradise/9221/
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Official Singapore Eurasian homepage
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Find out about the Eurasian community in Singapore.
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http://www.eurassn.org.sg/
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Mixed Signals
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The unofficial Singapore Eurasian Page and home page of the Mixed
Signals Web Ring, but they also include offsprings of European and Asians
as Eurasians.
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http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~troi/
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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The commission's duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the
members of the forces of the Commonwealth who were killed in the two
World Wars. It has a register of listing of the graves of soldiers and
where they were burried.
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http://www.cwgc.org
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Dutch Burgher Union - Journal
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Journals of the DUTCH BURGHER UNION of Ceylon. Beginning from Vol
1 (1908) to Vol XXV (1936). It is regarding The Dutch in Ceylon and
make interesting reading.
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http://www.iaf.nl/Users/janpoel/dbu/journal_index.html
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Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library
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Victor Melder is from Victoria, Australia. His web site is about
the Library, Burghers, Religion, Genealogy, Australian Content, Articles.
He claims that his Journals have over 200 genealogies of Burgher families.
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http://www.geocities.com/tormel_2000/
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ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES
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Arkib Negara Malaysia
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The National Archives of Malaysia. Includes web links to other archives
around the world.
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Public Records Office, UK
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The National Archives in England has a wealth of interesting information.
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National Dutch Archives
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The National Archives of the Netherlands. Written mostly in Dutch
language but they also have some interesting articles in English. They
are attemping to compile all family records between 1811 and 1911.
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