One of our committee has recently given a talk on how he traced his ancestry from Portugal to Jamaica. Different generations of his family migrated across continents also living in Amsterdam and London. Steve started his research many years ago pre the internet which meant many visits to archives and manual searches for information. Thankfully …
The next meeting of the Caribbean Family History Group is on Saturday 26th June at 14.00 hrs (BST) when we will be talking about shipping lists. Following that, our meeting dates are as follows: July – Saturday 31st July for which we have a speaker August – no meeting September – Saturday 25th September October …
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Today 22nd June is Windrush Day in the UK. The 73rd anniversary of the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush into Tilbury Docks in Essex in 1948 carrying the first migrants from the Caribbean to help re build Britain. Today honours the half a million people who travelled from the Caribbean to the United KIngdom. …
Did your ancestor travel from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom on the SS Empire Windrush ? In tracing your Caribbean ancestry, you may be able to find your ancestors name on the passenger list. Goldsmiths University of London have transcribed passenger lists and replicated landing cards to enable us to trace our relatives. Click …
My Heritage are offering a number of free Legacy Family Tree Webinars for you to watch. Subjects range from colourising your ancestor photos, to DNA clustering and passenger lists. There are a number to choose from. The webinars change regularly . There are more coming up later this month and in July and you can …
The Caribbean Family History Group are pleased to announce that we will be an exhibitor at the Genealogy Show , a virtual family history show on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th June. You can purchase tickets for the event in advance at the following link. Some of the speakers are listed here and most of …
Following our informative and enjoyable talk on Saturday on the Trinidad archives, these are the details of the newspapers available online. Newspapers can be a treasure trove of information that include obituaries, births, marriages, shipping information as well as court cases and other interesting snippets of information. The Port of Spain Gazette has been digitized …
The Caribbean Family History Group hosted a wonderful talk given by Ann Dardaine at our meeting on Saturday. It was informative, interesting and thoroughly enjoyed by all! Thank you Ann for a Saturday afternoon well spent! Ann gave a potted history of Trinidad and Tobago as well as information about how to access records for …
If you are searching for ancestors in Trinidad & Tobago and have found it difficult, come to our talk via Zoom on Saturday 29th May and find out how to trace your family. Ann Dardaine, a Genealogist from Trinidad & Tobago will be talking to us about the archives and how to obtain records. The …
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