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>>>Tracing your Jamaican family history<<<

Jamaican Family Search
GENEALOGY RESEARCH LIBRARY - Jamaica, West Indies, genealogical research site contains transcriptions from various documents for 1655 to 1947 (and a few to 1993), including nineteenth century Jamaica Almanacs. It includes images, a Glossary, Historical Background, and other Utilities to aid in putting this information into focus.
www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com | see also

Tracing Ancestors in Barbados - Book Cover Tracing Ancestors in Barbados
Geraldine Lane has drawn on her experience as a family history researcher in Barbados to compile this unique, comprehensive guide to the records on the island. Family records held in Barbados (a British colony from 1627 to 1966) are excellent but are not always easy to locate or understand. But no matter the level of difficulty, Tracing Ancestors in Barbados will guide both novice and experienced researchers through the many types of records and published sources that record the lives of the people of Barbados.
For researchers based on or off the island, this is an essential guide.
Further details www.barbadosancestors.com
Buy Online at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Cyndi's list
A list of easily accessible genealogy Web sites organised into logical categories for further ease of use. Cyndi Howells has also compiled an extensive range of hints, tips and general genealogy know-how for novices. www.cyndislist.com

1901 Census Site

You can search a comprehensive name index of over 32 million individuals and also view images of the original census pages as written by the census enumerator in 1901. www.census.pro.gov.uk

Access To Archives

Access to Archives enables you to search and browse for information about archives in England, dating from the 900s to the present day. These archives are cared for in cared for in local record offices and libraries, universities, museums and national and specialist institutions across England, where they are made available to the public.

A2A enables you to search across detailed catalogues from nearly 200 repositories in England beyond the Public Record Office, and to arrange to see or to obtain copies of specific, useful, real archive documents with a few mouse clicks.
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

Ancestry.com

An excellent resource for pursing family history research online. It connects internet users to one of the most comprehensive online geographical resources available. www.ancestry.com

BBC Family History

An excellent resource for beginners about to embark on family research because it includes a beginners' guide to tracing your family roots. It also provides an eight step guide for more advanced researchers wanting to get more.
www.bbc.co.uk/history

Genes Connected

To gain full access to the site, you need to be registered, but once logged in, you can start to build up your own family tree on the website and create a database of contacts, relations and ancestors from the information that you find across the site, or that you input.
www.genesconnected.co.uk

Family Records has a useful seven step guide to help you figure out where to begin in researching your family's history

http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/guides/beginners.htm

Genealogy Today

Genealogy Today has hundreds of helpful articles, dozens of unique
databases and services, along with a free membership program where members are given access to tools to help with their research.
www.genealogytoday.com

Introduction to Tracing Caribbean Roots
www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/caribbean/caribbean.htm
Developed by the Public Record Office

Roots Web is one of the oldest and largest FREE genealogy site, it contains extensive interactive guides and numerous research tools for tracing family histories.

The WorldGenWeb Project was created in 1996 by Dale Schneider in an effort to answer the ever growing needs of genealogists world-wide who were trying to research their ancestors. Their goal is to have every country in the world represented by an online website and hosted by researchers who either live in their own country or who are familiar with their country's resources. The WorldGenWeb Project is a not-for-profit volunteer genealogical organization dedicated to the free access of genealogical information by anyone in the world.

The WorldGenWeb is broken up into the following regions:

Africa
AfricaGenWeb Project

North America
NorthAmGenWeb Project

South America
SouthAmericangenWeb Project

Caribbean
CaribbeanGenWeb Project

Useful Articles

"We are all Africans under the skin" The Redcliff Interview/Dr Spencer Wells

Dr Wells has found new genetic evidence, based on thousands of DNA samples taken across the world over the past 10 years, that shows that all humans alive today have descended from a single man who lived in Africa some 60,000 years ago. view article

Out of Africa and Into India - an article from Rediff on how humans originated in Africa before slowly spreading across the world. view article

The Real Eve - an article from the Discovery Channel on how ancient humans spread across earth. view article

Donald Lindo, a keen Jamaican Genealogist, has produced a CD-ROM as an aid to research on Jamaican families. The disc contains his own research over many years which he has amalgamated with contributions from others who have done research into their Jamaican roots. Some family records go back as far as 700 AD. more >>>

AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general.
www.afrigeneas.com

Sources for Caribbean Family History

Useful websites:

The National Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Online documents www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline

Online catalogue www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue

Black Presence: Asian & Black History in Britain, 1500-1850 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/

National Register of Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra

Archives Hub http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/

Archives and Museum of Black Heritage www.aambh.org.uk/

BBC family history: www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/

BBC multicultural pages: www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/multicultural/

BBC: Born Abroad: An immigration map of Britain http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/html/overview.stm

Caribbean and Black & Asian History www.casbah.ac.uk

Channel 4 multicultural pages www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/O/origination/

Cyndi's List: www.cyndislist.com/hispanic.htm

Family Search (Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints) www.familysearch.org

Genes Connected www.genesconnected.co.uk

Moving Here www.movinghere.org.uk

Real Lives: Black and Asian Londoners 1536 - 184 http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/media_centre/files/214_02.htm

Society of Genealogists www.sog.org.uk

Tombstones and burials (Barbados and Antigua) www.tombstones.bb

Other Tips:

The individual Caribbean islands and Guyana each have a general registration office and record office, details of which will be on the government website.

Every Generation are looking for case studies,tips and information on how people have been succesful in tracing their family tree. Please email us at info@everygeneration.co.uk


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