Bristol and Avon History Society (FHS) – September 2025
The Caribbean Family History Group attended the annual Bristol and Avon History Society fair (FHS) on 13th September 2025.
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Jamaican ancestry
Jamaica
Our thoughts and prayers are with our friends and relatives in Jamaica following the recent traumatic events
Tracing Ancestors back to period of Slavery – Synopsis of October Talk by Steve Porter
In October, as part of our research sessions on tracing your ancestors back to the period of slavery, one of our senior researchers, Steve Porter gave a detailed talk on tracing back to this period in time. This is the first part of his talk which gives detailed information including documents, on how he traced
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Our meeting tomorrow
Our October research meeting will be tomorrow, Saturday 29th October at 14.00hrs (BST) . It will be part of our open day so will be a hybrid meeting over Zoom and in person at Solihull Library. Our speaker will be Steve Porter who will be presenting a talk on tracing ancestors back to the period
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Our next meeting on Saturday
The next meeting of the Caribbean Family History Group will be this Saturday 30th April at 14.00hrs (BST) via Zoom. This meeting will include our AGM. We are currently evaluating where we are in terms of skills that would help us progress the group. As such if you have any of the following skill-sets, and
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Have you Jewish ancestry in Jamaica?
One of our committee has traced his family line from Portugal to Jamaica via Holland and the United Kingdom. A remarkable story of migration across the world by different generations. He started his research pre the internet which meant many visits to archives and manually searching for information. Thankfully today many archives are digitized which
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Our October meeting
Thank you to those who attended our October meeting last week. A warm welcome to the new attendees. We extended our welcome to visitors from the UK and overseas who are researching different Caribbean Islands including Barbados, St Kitts & Nevis, Cuba, Grenada and Jamaica. We hope that you would like to join us again
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Our next meeting – Saturday 30th October
The next meeting of the Caribbean Family History Group is Saturday 30th October 2021 – 2pm till 4.30pm (UK/BST) on Zoom Our October meeting in the past (pre Covid) has been in the form of an ‘Open Day’ at Solihull Core Library where we have held an exhibition , workshops, helping newcomers to make a
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One Man’s journey tracing 6000 African Caribbean Ancestors
The Society of Genealogists are offering a talk by Adrian Stone, a Caribbean Genealogist. Adrian describes his journey from Bristol to London, then on to Jamaica, Scotland and America, and ultimately to an African woman named Ebo Venus. Ebo came to Kellits slave plantation in Jamaica in the 1790’s from Nigeria. There is a charge
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