Caribbean Roots

Caribbean Roots was launched in 2007 to encourage and promote research into Caribbean genealogy, identity and heritage.

We cannot carry out research or provide detailed individual guidance but common questions will hopefully be answered through the FAQ pages.  Instead our aim is to signpost resources and tell you about new events, books, websites and software to help you with your research.

News

Researching Your Jamaican Family (Arawak Publications, 2007) by Jennifer O'Sullivan-Sirjue and Patsy Robinson is a new book on Jamaican genealogy. The book is available from Amazon.com but does not seem to be available in the UK.

www.ancestry.co.uk has now launched digitised and indexed images of the slave registers for most of the Caribbean   <...more..>

A Caribbean Family History Group has been established with support from Lambeth Archives and the Black Cultural Archives <...more...>

Guy Grannum is running a five week online training course on Caribbean Family History through www.pharostutors.com using pdfs, a forum and online chat <...more...>

http://compensations.plantations.bb contains details of slave holders in Barbados and Antigua who received compensation under the terms of the 1833 slave emancipation act <...more...>

www.ancestorsonboard.com has completed digitising and indexing outwards passengers lists from the UK for the period 1890-1960 <...more...>

The various Ancestry sites continue to add material which contain information on West Indians: www.ancestry.com.au has details of West Indians transported to Australia and www.ancestry.co.uk has details of West Indians who served in the British army during the First World War <...more...>

377 Barbados manumissions granted between December 1831 and July 1834 uploaded <...more...>

Caribbean Roots: An introduction to tracing your Caribbean ancestors by Guy Grannum published <...more...>

Freedmen of Barbados. Names and notes for genealogical and family history research, by Jerome Handler, Ronald Hughes, Melanie Newton, Pedro LV Welch and Ernest M Wiltshire published <...more...>