29,533
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
:[http://londonfamilyhistory.org/useful-web-links/ Really Useful Weblinks] from London Family History website (a FamilySearch website) includes a category Caribbean. (Note, the information about London FSC is incorrect, as the Centre has closed).
→External links
:[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Genealogy_Research_Groups FamilySearch Genealogy Research Groups], also called Family Search Community. FamilySearch Wiki. Includes links to 'closed' Facebook groups (where you must be accepted by an Administrator) for the Caribbean and Jamaica. Note, to sign up to these groups you must be a Facebook member, and then may need to be signed in to FamilySearch, and then may need to agree to conditions set by FamilySearch Community, including access to your data.
:Scroll to article (5th page) [http://files.lib.byu.edu/family-history-library/research-outlines/Europe/BritishIsles.pdf "Seventeenth Century Immigration to North America from Great Britain and Ireland"] written by what is now Family Search 1976. lib.byu.edu. Includes the West Indies. Note, due to the date of this article, some sources may now be available online.
*[https://grannum.wordpress.com/caribbean-family-history/ Caribbean family history: An introduction to tracing your Caribbean ancestors]. ''Caribbean Roots'' website. Includes information about Civil Registration, and addresses of Registry Offices. For example, births were registered from 1890 in Barbados, and 1880 in Jamaica.
*[https://www.caribbeangenweb.org/index.php/en/ CaribbeanGenWeb]. This site is part of the WorldGenWeb Project and is the regional resource page for research in the Caribbean.
*[https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.caribbean/mb.ashx Rootsweb Message Boards: Carribean]. Part of Ancestry. Search the Archives.
:[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/ Search the Rootsweb Mailing Lists Archives] for a specific List and then search, or Search All Rootsweb Mailing Lists including Barbados, Jamaica etc. The Lists closed March 2020, but the Archives remain searchable.
*Rootsweb page [http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~guppyross/genealogy/trinidadhome.html Trinidad Collection]
*[https://memorials.rmg.co.uk Maritime Memorials] in respect of ships’ crews’ deaths, both Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, from all around the world. Includes transcriptions of UK memorials for deaths "overseas". Search for entries using terms such as Barbados, Jamaica, etc, a small number are classified West Indies, or Caribbean, or search by name. An associated National Maritime Museum, UK website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080915122721/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/index.php?cat=1 Trace and tell your family’s Empire stories] with links to pages "Government Records of Britons in …" including
