Tracing your Caribbean ancestors : a National Archives guide / / Guy Grannum

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786108603321
• Autore: Grannum Guy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London] : , : National Archives; London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-4081-7887-7; 1-4081-7886-9
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 220 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 929.38611
• Soggetti: West Indians; Caribbean Area Genealogy; West Indies Genealogy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Revised 3rd edition"--cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- C -- E -- M -- S -- W -- INTRODUCTION -- Overview -- Further reading -- 1 FIRST STEPS -- 1.1 Be prepared -- 1.2 How do I start my research? -- 1.3 Surnames -- 1.4 The Internet -- 1.5 Archives and libraries -- 1.6 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- 1.7 The National Archives (UK) -- 1.8 Digitised sources -- 1.9 Ancestral origins -- 1.10 Further reading and useful websites -- 2 RECORDS OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE -- 2.1 Original correspondence -- 2.2 Entry books -- 2.3 Acts -- 2.4 Sessional papers -- 2.5 Government gazettes -- 2.6 Miscellanea -- 2.7 Registers of correspondence -- 2.8 Registers of out-letters -- 2.9 Other records -- 2.10 Further reading -- 3 MIGRATION TO THE CARIBBEAN -- 3.1 Emigration: general records -- 3.2 Indentured servants -- 3.3 Transportation -- 3.4 Slave trade -- 3.5 American loyalists -- 3.6 Liberated Africans -- 3.7 Indentured labourers -- 4 LIFE CYCLE RECORDS -- 4.1 Records of births, marriages and deaths -- 4.2 Censuses and other listings -- 4.3 Wills and grants of administration -- 5 LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS -- 5.1 Land grants -- 5.2 Maps and plans -- 5.3 Plantation records -- 5.4 Further reading -- 6 MILITARY ; AND RELATED RECORDS -- 6.1 Army -- 6.2 Royal Navy -- 6.3 Royal Marines -- 6.4 Royal Air Force -- 6.5 Merchant Navy -- 7 SLAVES AND SLAVE HOLDERS -- 7.1 Slave Registry -- 7.2 Slave Compensation Commission -- 7.3 Amelioration -- 7.4 Manumissions (grants of freedom) -- 7.5 Acts on the status, condition and treatment of slaves -- 7.6 Further reading -- 8 THE COLONIAL CIVIL SERVANT -- 8.1 Further reading -- 9 MIGRATION FROM THE WEST INDIES -- 9.1 Migration to the United Kingdom -- 9.2 West Indian migration outside the United Kingdom -- 10 BRITISH WEST INDIES RESOURCES -- 10.1 British West Indies, general -- 10.2 Anguilla.; 10.3 Antigua and Barbuda -- 10.4 Bahamas -- 10.5 Barbados -- 10.6 Bay Islands -- 10.7 Belize (formerly British Honduras) -- 10.8 Bermuda -- 10.9 British Virgin Islands -- 10.10 Cayman Islands -- 10.11 Dominica -- 10.12 Federation of the West Indies -- 10.13 Grenada -- 10.14 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) -- 10.15 Jamaica -- 10.16 Leeward Islands -- 10.17 Montserrat -- 10.18 Nevis -- 10.19 St Christopher (St Kitts) -- 10.20 St Lucia -- 10.21 St Vincent and the Grenadines -- 10.22 Tobago -- 10.23 Trinidad -- 10.24 Turks and Caicos Islands -- 10.25 Windward Islands -- 11 RECORDS OF THE NON-BRITISH WEST INDIES -- 11.1 Cuba -- 11.2 Denmark -- 11.3 Dominican Republic (formerly Santo Domingo) -- 11.4 France -- 11.5 Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue) -- 11.6 Honduras -- 11.7 Netherlands -- 11.8 Panama -- 11.9 Spain -- 11.10 Sweden -- 11.11 United States -- Useful addresses -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is ideal for anyone who reaserching their Caribbean family history The National Archives and beyond. The National Archives holds records for many people who lived in British West Indian colonies such as emigrants, plantation owners, slaves, soldiers, sailors and transported criminals. The Archives also hold the colonial office records for the British West Indies. This includes state correspondence to and from the colonies and passenger lists. Tracing Your Caribbean Ancestors also shows readers how to use family history sources and genealogy websites and indexes beyond The National Archives. Fully updated and revised, this new edition covers recent developments in Caribbean archives, including details of newly released information and archives that are now available online. This book outlines the primary research sources for those tracing their Caribbean ancestry and describes details of access to archives, further reading, useful websites and how to find and accurately search family history sources. As Britain does not hold locally created records of its dependencies such as church records, this book doubles as a gateway to the local history sources throughout the Caribbean that remain in each country's archives and register office. This book will be of use to anyone researching family history in British Caribbean countries of Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands as well as Guyana, Belize and Bermuda.