The next meeting of the Caribbean Family History Group is tomorrow Saturday 24th April at 14.00hrs BST. This will include our AGM followed by a talk . We are pleased to be able to advise that Whitney Pearson – Content Strategist for Family Search will be giving us an overview of using Family Search for …
My Heritage are celebrating Spring by giving free access to birth records for a week from 18th to 24th April 2021. Read more about the offer here . My Heritage hold 115 collections of birth records which are an invaluable source of information for family historians. You can access birth records directly here _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of St Vincent and the Eastern Caribbean during this difficult time. If you have ancestors who came from St Vincent why not have a look on the Engangered Archives website. Here you can find wills, deeds as well as some marriages and baptism records. If we can …
Today the Caribbean Family History Group have a booth at the Family History Federation’s Really Useful Family History Show. Come and chat to us and bring us your queries! If you missed us, please email us your query on email. We will endeavour to assist with any island query. We also have a military expert …
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! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
