Ancestry are offering free access to their Worldwide records from 02 April until 05 April, so this is your chance to do some research this Easter weekend! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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We will again be in attendance at the Really Useful Family History Show to help you with your Caribbean family history queries. Sharon Tomblin will be speaking about Tracing your Female Caribbean Ancestors. The show is a virtual show with numerous speakers and private booths for your to speak to family history groups. Please see
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If we could tell you where you may see records you have not seen before, possibly photographs of ancestors, and maybe find new relatives, would you be interested? Come to our research meeting on Saturday 27th March at 2.00pm (GMT) to find out how! More details of the agenda to follow. Please email here to
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Once again the Caribbean Family History Group will be at this event on Saturday 10th April. The Really Useful Family History Show is organised by the Family History Federation of which our group is part. There are numerous talks to choose from which can be viewed up to 7 days after the event. More information
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How are you documenting your research? Have you considered setting up a checklist so you don’t go back over the same information? Listed below are the main documents/records you will be looking for : Birth records/certificate Baptism records Marriage records/certificate Death record/certificate Cemetery /burial records Census records Passenger lists Land tax records Military records Court
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Tracing our Caribbean family history is exciting, fulfilling and keeps us up until the early hours! If you have any success stories in your family history, we would love to hear from you . We would like to share your success with our fellow family history researchers on our website. We are all keen to
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Thank you to those who attended our meeting on Saturday. We had an informative chat and information exchange about Rootstech and the talks that we had been able to watch so far. Do bear in mind, most talks are available for one year so just log in as normal and you will be able to
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We have recently been given permission to display these beautiful photographs of a Caribbean Family History Group member’s family in Jamaica. Dressed for a wonderful occasion, we don’t know where they are going or indeed what they do for a living. The UK National Archives has a vast array of Caribbean documents for family history
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The British Newspaper Archives has recently added some Caribbean Newspapers to its online collection. The Morning Journal, Jamaica, St Christopher Advertiser, St Kitts Daily Express, The Sun Antigua and Barbados Agricultural reporter have recently been added to their collection If you already have a subscription, why not take a look. If not you will need
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To celebrate St Valentine’s Day, My Heritage are giving free access to marriage records from 10th-16th February! Click on the link for further information; My Heritage . You will need to be fast, limited time only! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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