New Netherland, Vital Records 1600s

Journey back to 17th century New Netherland with these fully indexed images of family group records. This data represents over 1,793 families in the present area of New York and New Jersey, as well as parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Spanning 1613 to 1674, this is rich and detailed family pedigree information. Because so few American records are available from this time period, the data takes on heightened significance. Given that these records start so early in American history and are quite thorough, a large portion of United States residents will have at least one ancestor in this group. There are tens of millions of descendants of these people living today in the United States.

Each page of this data set shows a separate lineage with family names, head of family with personal data, a three generation genealogy, and a list of reference sources. The pedigrees are clearly well-documented and provide information on births, deaths, and marriages.

While the information that you'll learn from this data set varies, you can often learn:

• Names of family members
• Ages of family members
• Locations of events
• Dates of vital events
• Native towns of origin
• Approximate arrival date in America

Source: Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons in New Netherland, From 1613 to 1674. Volumes I-IV. Created by David M. Riker, chairman of the Genealogy Committee of the Holland Society of New York.

More About this Data Set

Many Dutch last names are compound, that is, they contain prefixes such as "van, den, der, op," etc. These are either capitalized or not, and combined or not. For example, these are all variants of the same last name:

• van den Berg
• Van Den Berg
• Vandenberg

• van den Bergh
• Vanderberg