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’ …
An interesting read on ‘Who Do You Think You Are’. Adrian Stone traced his ancestry back to Bristol, to Windrush and back to slavery. He described it as ‘a spiritual journey’ and found over 6000 ancestors and 10 generations. Read his story here: https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/real-stories/my-family-came-here-with-the-windrush-generation/ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you so much to those who joined us from far and wide at our July zoom research meeting on Saturday. It is fair to say we had an inspirational, motivational, collaborative and very enjoyable afternoon! We were researching a variety of Islands including St Thomas, St Kitts & Nevis, Jamaica, Barbados, St Croix, Grenada, …
Our July meeting will be today, Saturday 25th July at 14.00BST via Zoom. Topics to be covered as follows: We will be re-visiting our topic from last month ‘Talking to Elders’ Were you successful in gaining family tree information? What strategies did you use? Please share your experiences. One of the ways we learn new …
Our July meeting will be on Saturday 25th July at 14.00BST via Zoom. Topics to be covered as follows: We will be re-visiting our topic from last month ‘Talking to Elders’ Were you successful in gaining family tree information? What strategies did you use? Please share your experiences. One of the ways we learn new …
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. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our July meeting will be on Saturday 25th July at 14.00BST via Zoom. Topics to be covered as follows: We will be re-visiting our topic from last month ‘Talking to Elders’ Were you successful in gaining family tree information? What strategies did you use? Please share your experiences. One of the ways we learn new …
The Endangered Archives programme facilitates the digitisation of documents from around the world that are in danger following hurricanes, floods , earthquakes. This includes a number of the Caribbean Islands. This work will greatly assist us in our searches for historical documents on our family history quest. The Barbadian Newspaper has recently been digitised. Read …
The BBC2 series ‘ A House Through Time’ with David Olusoga is currently being repeated. This series tells the story of those who lived in a house in Bristol . Episode 1 starts in the 18th Century and includes the story of seafaring families who occupied the house. A variety of resources were used to …
Thank you for joining us at our meeting last Saturday. We would like to welcome our new visitors from overseas and the UK as well as our current members. Our main topic following our AGM was ‘Talking to Elders’ . I think we would all agree, how important it is to talk to elders now. …
