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Barbados Resource Guide

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Bajan Genealogy

• Barbados Ancestry
• Barbados and the Carolinas Legacy Foundation
• Barbados Family Research
  A reference guide to researching your Bajan family roots.
• Barbados Genealogy Forum (Genealogy.com)
• Barbados Genealogy (CreoleLinks.com)
  Several articles on researching Barbados Genealogy. The site provides a template for for doing research in a slave society where names are not always what they seem.
• Barbados Message Boards (Ancestry.com)
• Black Genealogical or Historical Societies in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean
• Caribbean Family History
  The Web site contains several databases compiled from various sources, to help Caribbean researchers uncover their family history. (Note: The site includes the Barbados Slave Manumission, West Indian Plantation Onwers, West Indian Slave Compensation Claims, and West Indian Tombstone and Burial records formerly available at Tombstones.bb and Plantations.bb)
• Caribbean Genealogy - Country Resources: Barbados
• Caribbean Migration
  (From "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience") A large number of people from the British West Indies migrated to the United States beginning in the 1900s. Today, more than 1.5 million Afro-Caribbeans represent close to 5 percent of the U.S. black population.
• Caribbean Surname Index
  A Discussion Forum containing surname, location, and other "Boards" where registered users may post their relevant information and hope for a response from other family members searching on the Internet.
• Chronicle Barbados
  Centre for Barbados Studies in History and Genealogy
• CreoleLinks.com
• Legacies of British Slave-ownership
• Records Branch (Barbados Supreme Court)
  The Records Branch administers the registration of events such as births, still-births, deaths, marriages and is responsible for the administering statutes relating to the registration of professionals. It also makes available to customers public records about individuals and issues birth, death, marriage certificates. [Note: Coming soon! Vital Records Online]
• Researching African-Caribbean Family History
  Useful leads from Guy Grannum on uncovering your family's past
• Researching Barbados Family Roots
  Information on the Barbados Archives and Museum.
• Tangled Roots: Barbadosed
  African slaves and Irish natives shared a common fate on the island of Barbados
• Tracing Ancestors in Barbados
  Barbados based researcher Geraldine Lane has compiled a comprehensive guide to records held on the island and offers a family history research service.
• Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors
  (Public Record Office Readers' Guide, No. 11)
  An illustrated guide that introduces researchers to the main sources available at The National Archives (U.K.) and elsewhere, including electoral and tax returns, land grants, colonial civil servants, the West Indies regiments and the Slave Compensation Commission.

Visit We Sailed Great Ships, the results of Don Hinson's personal search into his bajan roots.