Bajan Genealogy

  • Barbados Genealogy Forum (Genealogy.com)
  • Barbados Family Research
    A reference guide to researching your Bajan family roots.
  • Barbados Message Boards (RootsWeb)
  • Barbados Slave Manumission Records
    Data collected from original records held at the Barbados Department of Archives. The records cover the period from December 1831 to July 1834.
  • Chronicle Barbados
    Centre for Barbados Studies in History and Genealogy
  • 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 Barbados Family Roots
    Information on the Barbados Archives and Museum.
  • 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.
  • West Indian Plantations
    An Index to Plantations Owners (1630 - 1846)
  • West Indian Slave Compensation Claims
    Database compiled from the returns of people who received compensation following the 1833 emancipation act which freed slaves in the British colonies in the Caribbean, Bermuda, Belize, Guyana, Mauritius and Cape Colony (South Africa).
  • West Indian Tombstones & Burials

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Updated February 23, 2008
Donald L. Hinson, Jr.