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 …
The next meeting of our group will be on Saturday 26th June at 14.00 hrs (BST). Make a note in your diary! More details of the agenda to follow. Attendance is free to members and first time attendees, otherwise UK£5.00 per meeting. Please email here to register for the meeting. A link will then be …
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Your first attendance at a meeting of the Caribbean Family History Group is free, thereafter UK£5.00 per meeting so why not join us – our annual membership fee is UK£20.00 What is incuded in your membership: Free attendance at meetings and most talks Assistance with research where possible Sharing of tips. tricks, brainstorming brick walls …
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 …
Our next meeting will include our AGM and is on Saturday 24th April at 14.00hrs BST via zoom. Our AGM will include: Welcome and Apologies Minutes of last AGM and matters arising Receiving Reports from the Chairperson the Treasurer other Officers Stepping down of existing Core Committee Officers – with thanks Selecting/Voting in of new Core Committee …
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 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We hope to see you at our meeting on Saturday at 2.00pm GMT via Zoom. We will be using the content of the Rootstech talks as a basis for our meeting Some Rootstech key points to note Event spread – The event runs from Thurs 25th Feb till Saturday 27h February – with event dates …
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Our February meeting will be held on Saturday 27th February at 2.00pm GMT via Zoom. We have decided to use Rootstech 2021 as a base for our meeting. Family Search , the organisers of Rootstech hold a large amount of Caribbean records and some talks are aimed particularly at Caribbean Ancestry. If you have been …
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Our members Barbados group have had great success in getting back another generation during our collaborative twice monthly family history sessions. By working together in an online group we have found we can easily exchange ideas and make suggestions which have assisted us in tracing our family history further back. We have also been instrumental …
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