Dutch records for Van Meteren emigrants to America

Question

I understand that the Netherlands has made church records available online more than most countries. I am hoping someone familiar with records can point me to the spefici URL for an index or for original images of documents related to the Van Meter/Van Matre families in America. Specifically, I hope to identify the records to show that Jans Joosten "Van Meeteren" was cousin to Jan Gysbertsen Van Materen. Their profiles are here:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Meteren-25

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gysbertsen-2

They are supposedly both recorded in Gelderland, and this file purports to show their connection plus several generations going before that:

https://www.skeeterkitefly.com/finelineage_untitled_tree.pdf

Any help pointing me to the database where I can start to identify the records used to produce this document and add them to WikiTree profiles is much appreciated. I'd like to connect the two profiles on Wikitree, if possible.

Answer 1

The website you need for records of Gelderland is www.geldersarchief.nl. I can't find any of the persons you mention, however. Probably because there are hardly baptism-, marriage- and burialrecords of the period you are looking for. Perhaps you could find these persons in other sources that aren't digitized yet.

Comments

You could also try Regionaal Archief Rivierenland https://regionaalarchiefrivierenland.nl/home . It covers the region.

Answer 2

Both surnames are toponyms and refer to the same village in the 17th century. Villages were very small in those days, so everyone in that village could be related to each other or even descended from the same paternal ancestor. That said, chances of being able to substantiate this with contemporary documents are almost nil. The only hope is to test multiple men from both families via their Y-DNA.