Thank you to all those who attended our meeting on Saturday 26th September. We had another interesting and informative meeting . Hopefully we will have given you inspiration and spurred you on to go further in your family tree. We discussed talking to elders, assisted a member with their tree and had an interesting talk …
Please join us at our zoom meeting on Saturday 26th September at 14.00BST. Our topics this month will include: Update on talking with elders Helping a researcher with a brick wall An intriguing talk ‘Mix Up, Secretive Caribbean Families’ Please email us to register your attendance. Your first meeting is FREE, thereafter £5 per meeting. …
If you missed Guy Grannum’s presentation through the National Archives in June, it is now available on Youtube. Guy is an author and genealogist who has completed extensive research over the last 25 years into his Caribbean ancestors. Caribbean Connections discusses Caribbean migration to the UK. Click here to view the talk.
Soldiers from the When Britain and Revolutionary France went to war in 1793, their Caribbean colonies were also caught up in the conflict. Many people from Caribbean islands such as St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada fought in French military units against the British. In 1796 over 2,000 free French black soldiers were captured and …
Paul Crooks has researched his African/Caribbean Ancestry and traced his family back 6 generations from London to Jamaica to West Africa . He is currently offering some informative talks through Eventbrite. Follow the links from his website to make a booking. Tonight’s talk is ‘Tracing Black Ancestry – Secrets of the 1817 Slave Registers Uncovered’ …
I came across this article on the BBC which was an interesting read. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/3k9u8lh178/Searching_for_my_slave_roots The poet and author Malik Al Nasir traced his roots from Liverpool and discovered links with families in Grenada and Guyana. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A couple of weeks ago Guy Grannum, who has been writing and speaking about Caribbean Family History for 25 years, gave an interesting talk in conjunction with the National Archives. You can listen to Guy’s talk ‘Caribbean Connections’ here: https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/whats-on-line-caribbean-connections/
