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The Caribbean / The West Indies
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- Bermudian Genealogy & History
Bermuda surnames, as well as lists of ships passengers to Bermuda and various other things of interest to a person researching ancestors from Bermuda.
- Bibliography for Researchers of Jamaican Genealogy and History
- Caribbean Genealogy Research
Country by country links and addresses for genealogy.
- Caribbean Roots: Caribbean Ancestry and Heritage
To encourage and promote research into Caribbean genealogy, identity and heritage.
- CASBAH
Research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK.
- DOMTOM-GENEA
Genealogical website for French territories overseas as Carribean, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Reunion Island and neighbouring countries as Mauritius, Pondichery /Site généalogique pour la France d'Outre-Mer : Dom-Tom.
- Dutch Antilles
- Family History of Jamaica, West Indies
From Madeleine Mitchell. ARSCOTT, COVER, MURRAY, LEVY.
- [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
Genealogia
Spanish and Cuban genealogy links.
- Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraïbe
- Genealogy of the Cayman Islands
- Index to "Historia de Familias Cubanas, Vols 1-9" - (Histories of Cuban Families)
- Jamaican Family Search
A Jamaican genealogy reference library containing Lists of Proprietors and Properties and Civil and Military Lists from 19th century Jamaican Almanacs, extractions from Wills and Registers, and useful Jamaican research tools.
- Jamaican Jewish Genealogy
- Moving Here - 200 Years of Migration to England
Online searchable database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years.
- St. Kitts - Nevis Genealogy Page
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines Genealogy Research
A genealogy guide to researching your roots in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, complete with old newspaper articles containing many individual names. Also includes pages profiling individual families including Alexander, Cox, Dalzell, Guilding, Hackshaw, and others.
- Transportation to America and the West Indies, 1615-1776 ~ United Kingdom
Public Record Office information leaflet.
- Where to Find Jamaican Genealogical Information
- Yahoo! Clubs Genealogía Hispana
- Yahoo! Clubs - Hispanic Genealogy
- Yahoo!...Hispanic...Genealogy
- Spain In America
An Ibero-American history site, which focuses on the post-Colombian period (ca. 1500 - 1750).
- French Genealogical Word List
- French Letter Writing Guide
For genealogical inquiries from FamilySearch.org.
- Online English to French to English Dictionary
- Online English to Portuguese to English Dictionary
- Online English to Spanish to English Dictionary
- Portuguese Genealogical Word List
- Portuguese Letter Writing Guide
For genealogical inquiries from FamilySearch.org.
- Spanish Genealogical Word List
- Spanish Letter Writing Guide
For genealogical inquiries from FamilySearch.org.
- Yahoo! Babel Fish - Text Translation and Web Page Translation
Input a URL for a web site or a block of plain text and this site will translate it for you: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
- Bermudian Heritage Museum ~ Bermuda
Home of the Bermudian Heritage Association.
- Bermuda Historical Museum
- Bermuda Maritime Museum ~ Mangrove Bay, Bermuda
- Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
Digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
- Family History Library Catalog
From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also search for other localities by place name.
- Family Search - Family History Centers
- FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE - Directorio Web de Archivos Iberoamericanos
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.
- H-Latam Archives
A list of information about Latin American archives, submitted by visitors to the H-Net web site.
- The Latin American Library at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- LibDex - The Library Index
A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).
- National Library of Jamaica
- The Nevis Historical & Conservation Society - Library and Archives
The Society maintains the Archives of Nevis, situated at the Nelson Museum next to Government House in Bellvue.
- Repositories of Primary Sources: Latin America and the Caribbean
A list of links to online resources from the Univ. of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives.
Mailing lists are interactive e-mail forums that are free for you to subscribe to and participate in. Click on the links below and be sure to follow the instructions provided exactly as shown in order to subscribe to the mailing list of your choice. Be sure to keep a copy of the welcome message that you receive. This message will contain details about the mailing list, the person who runs the list and instructions you will need in order to participate in the list, unsubscribe from the list, etc.
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 ANTIGUA Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in Antigua and Barbuda. Archives: browse or search.
- BAHAMAS Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the country of the Bahamas. Archives: browse or search.
- Bahamians Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Bahamas including the sharing of surname interests and the exchange of genealogical and historical information.
- BARBADOS Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the independent state of Barbados, the easternmost island in the West Indies. Archives: browse or search.
- BARBUDA Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in Barbuda, one of three islands that make up the independent state of Antigua and Barbuda in the West Indies. Many early settlers on Barbuda stayed a generation or two and moved on to Charles Town, South Carolina. Archives: browse or search.
- bay-island-genealogy Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Bay Islands (e.g., Roatan, Utila, Guanaja, Cayos Cochinos) off the northern coast of Spanish Honduras.
- BRITISH-VIRGIN-ISLANDS Mailing List
Sponsored by the British Virgin Islands GenWeb Project, for anyone with a genealogical interest in the British Virgin Islands. Archives: browse or search.
- Caribbean-AfriGeneas
To coordinate, network and strengthen the efforts of those researching African ancestry in the Caribbean region.
- CARIBBEAN Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the West Indies and the Caribbean. Archives: browse or search.
- CARIBBEAN-FREEDMEN Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in Freedmen in the Caribbean from all ethnic backgrounds (e.g., African, Caucasian, indigenous natives). Archives: browse or search.
- cayman-connections Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the Cayman Islands.
- CUBA Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the country of Cuba. Archives: browse or search.
- GEN-HISPANIC Mailing List
Gatewayed with the soc.genealogy.hispanic newsgroup for the discussion of Hispanic genealogy. Archives: browse or search.
- HUGUENOT-WALLOON Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the French Huguenots and Belgium Walloons who fled to the West Indies, the Netherlands, and the United States in the 17th century. Archives: browse or search.
- JAMAICA Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the island of Jam. Archives: browse or search.
- MadeiraExiles Mailing List
Devoted to the research of Dr. Robert Reid Kalley's Portuguese Presbyterian exiles from Madeira, Portugal who emigrated to Trinidad and then to Illinois (ca 1846-1854). Postings regarding research of related exiles who settled in Trinidad, Antigua, St Kitts, Jamaica, Demerara, etc. are also welcome. Archives: browse or search.
- PORTUGUESE-WESTINDIES Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Portuguese immigrants to the West Indies. Archives: browse or search.
- REPUBLICA-DOMINICANA Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Dominican Republic. Archives: browse or search.
- SAINT-DOMINGUE Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the former french colony of Saint Domingue (now Haiti). Archives: browse or search.
- SPAN-AM-WAR Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Spanish American War. Archives: browse or search.
- Search soc.genealogy.west-indies Posts
- Usenet Newsgroup soc.genealogy.hispanic
- Usenet Newsgroup soc.genealogy.west-indies
Adoptions, biographies, ethnic groups, famous people, immigrants, some family groups, etc.
Links to professional researchers found on Cyndi's List are included as a courtesy. Unless otherwise stated, the existence of these links on Cyndi's List does not imply endorsement of the services or products provided by those professional researchers. See also: Disclaimers
The sites found in this category vary in content. Some sites have extractions or transcriptions of actual records. Other sites have helpful lists, articles, tips or guidelines. In a few cases there are scanned images of the original source documents themselves, with more of these types of records coming online each day. Keep in mind that extractions & transcriptions may have errors or may be missing certain portions of the original source material. Always refer to the original source material whenever possible and only use extractions & transcriptions as a starting point to help guide you in your research.
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 Ancestry.com - Search Court, Land, Wills & Financial Records
Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.
- English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800
Original source: Joanne McRee Sanders. Barbados Records: Baptisms, 1637-1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984.; Joanne McRee Sanders. Barbados Records: Marriages, 1643-1800. Vols. 1-2. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982.; Joanne McRee Sanders. Barbados Records: Wills, 1639-1725. Vols. 1-3. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979-1981.
- Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834
Original source: Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication T71); Records created and inherited by HM Treasury; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.
- Barbados Slave Manumission Records
from original records held at the Barbados Department of Archives under references RB7/26 and RB7/27. The records cover the period December 1831 to July 1834 just prior to the Emancipation Act becoming effective on 1 August 1834.
- Cuban Army of Liberation 1895-1898
Searchable database of veterans of the "Mambi Army" who fought in the Cuban War of Independence 1895-1898.
- Family Search Record Search
Millions of indexed records and images of records. Join volunteers around the world who are helping to make more free records available online through FamilySearch Indexing.
- Genealogy Quest - Surinam to Jamaica, 1675
In July 1667, Surinam was ceded to the Dutch. In 1675 commissioners were sent from England to bring away "his Majesty's subjects, their slaves, goods, and estates." Here are three ships carrying English passengers to Jamaica.
- Lincolnshire Convicts transported to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda
Online searchable database from the Lincolnshire Archives.
- Slave Compensations
Currently lists all those compensated for slaves in Antigua and Barbados.
- Tombstones.bb
Monumental Inscriptions databases for Antigua and Barbados, from transcriptions of original burial registers held at the Barbados Archives, Westbury Cemetery, Vere Oliver's History of Antigua and obituaries.
- West Indian Plantations
Plantation Owners' Index, Barbados.
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