Our next meeting is on Saturday 25th November at 14.00 hrs (GMT) when we will be offering you another chance to see a virtual tour of our exhibition which is currently being displayed at Solihull Core Library. If you have a chance to go along to the library, please visit the exhibition, you will find …
The next research meeting of the Caribbean Family History Group is Saturday 27th May at 14.00 hrs BST online via Zoom. We will be discussing the subject of ‘Talking to Our Elders’. We are all interested in their stories but you can learn more about how to identify what is important to you in your …
The next meeting of the Caribbean Family HIstory Group is on Saturday 25th February 2023 at 14.00 hrs (GMT) Our February meeting will extend the ‘beginner’s’ topic of our January meeting by touching on talking to relatives wherever they are, and how the stories and heritage they hold in their memory banks can help us make connections …
Our next meeting will be on Saturday 24th September at 1400hrs (BST) via Zoom and will be the first of our three meetings exploring how to find ancestors in the British Caribbean Slavery Period – whether enslaved or enslaver. The meeting will focus on key documents associated with this British Caribbean Slavery period: a) Introducing …
Thank you for attending our Zoom research meeting on Saturday 30th July. We welcomed those researching ancestors from a number of islands including US Virgin Islands, Cuba, St KItts & Nevis, Panama, Barbados, Antigua, Grenada and Jamaica. We had an interesting and informative discussion on different techniques to use when researching. I list some ‘takeaways’ …
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 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Have you found a link to a plantation in your family research? Did your relative hold a prominent role in council or was he a sailor? The National Archives at Kew holds many documents relating to plantations, government and shipping records in the Caribbean. They are currently offering free downloads of some documents. Will downloads …
