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Join the NYG&B for a one-day seminar focused on the process for tracing residents of New Netherland, a vast and dynamic colony that encompassed parts of of the present-day states of Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York . Expert researchers, John Blythe Dobson and Yvette Hoitink—key team members on the NYG&B’s New Netherland Settlers mulityear initiative—will lead sessions on topics including tracing ancestors in published sources both in the United States and the Netherlands and researching underdocumented residents such as women, free and enslaved individuals, and Indigenous people. They will also provide a behind-the-scenes view of the process for creating a sketch for the New Netherland Settlers initiative.