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 …
Thank you for attending our meeting on Saturday. It was good to see a number of people from overseas, including Australia! Another interesting and informative meeting about ‘organising your family history’ and using social media in your research Here is some useful information from the meeting: Solihull Life Website – click on links Solihull Life …
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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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Are you interested in the social history around the life of your ancestors? Would you like to learn more about researching your family tree? Future Learn offer a number of free courses that can be studied online, at your own pace. You will need to register with the company initially for access to all the …
Thank you to all those who attended our research meeting yesterday afternoon. It was an inspiring and motivating meeting. Visitors were researching a variety of islands including St Kitts & Nevis, St Croix, St Thomas, Grenada, Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados, Panama. I am sure we all took inspiration from the successes of those present and it …
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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 …
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/
