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200 Years in Paradise

VAN BEVERHOUDT, CONRAD, MOORHEAD, PENTHENY, ROBSON, and associated Family history in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Also general research resources, techniques, and analyses for research in the Danish West Indies, from colonial to modern times.

Ancestry.com - Search Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancestry.com - Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834 $

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. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Free Colored Censuses, 1815-1832 $

Original source: Selected Records of the Danish West Indies, 1672

Ancestry.com - St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Slave and Free People Records, 1733-1930 $

Original source: U.S. Virgin Islands St. Croix Records. Fredericksted, U.S. Virgin Islands: Virgin Islands History Associates (VISHA). Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Slave Plantation and Town Head Tax Lists, 1772-1821 $

Original source: St. Croix Slave Plantation and Head Tax Lists, 1772-1821. Virgin Islands Social History Associates (VISHA), PO Box 338, Frederiksted, US Virgin Islands 00841. Images reproduced courtesy of VISHA. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S. Federal Censuses

Census images available by subscription:

Ancestry.com - U.S. Virgin Islands Census, 1835-1911 (Danish Period) $

Original source: Virgin Islands Social History Associates (VISHA). US Virgin Islands Census (Danish Period 1835-1911). Virgin Islands Social History Associates (VISHA), PO Box 338, Frederiksted, US Virgin Islands 00841. Images and index reproduced courtesy of VISHA. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S. Virgin Islands, Danish West Indies Slave Records, 1672-1917 $

Original source: Danish West Indies, Slave Records, 1672

Caribbean Genealogy Library

Caribbean genealogy, history, and cultural heritage information resources for the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean.

Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands)

U.S. Virgin Islands. Maps, resource guide, index of wills 1671-1848, 1722 list of inhabitants, and other genealogical aids for St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.
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FamilySearch Catalog

From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Microfilm loans can be ordered and then sent to your local Family History Center.

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Provides cemetery location information.

Italian Genealogical Group - Alien Statements

This database contains records from New York City, New York State, New Jersey and the Virgin Islands.

LibDex - The Library Index - Virgin Islands

A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

Library of Congress - U.S. Virgin Islands: State Resource Guide

This guide provides access to digital materials related to the state at the Library of Congress, as well as links to external websites and a selected print bibliography.

National Archives - Browse the 1940 Census - Virgin Islands ^FREE

National Archives and Records Administration

NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Explore Historical Newspaper Archives Online $

The world's largest online newspaper archive. Featuring billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world. This unique archive spans more than 400 years of family history, small-town events, world news and more. Searchable database with the number of results shown, images available with a fee-based subscription.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

From the University of Texas at Austin.