Family History

Afro-Caribbean Family History

AfricaGenWebProject
This is the African branch of the WorldGenWeb Project, a volunteer-based project to assist family history research. The AfricaGenWeb Project includes resource and reference information for a few individual countries..
http://www.africagenweb.org/

CaribbeanGenWebProject
This is the Caribbean branch of the WorldGenWeb Project, a volunteer-based project to assist family history research. Includes resource and reference information for individual Caribbean islands. For St Vincent and the Grenadines see the separate site below called SVG Ancestry
http://www.rootsweb.com/ ~caribgw/

Empire's Children
Empire's children is a Channel Four web site full of useful family history and general history resources for anyone with connections to the British Empire. To find country-specific tips, click the 'Research your Empire story' button at the top of the site's home page, then click the country you need from the list
http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/

Every Generation
"The online community resource to the black community" with family history and history resources.
http://www.everygeneration.co.uk/

Moving Here: Caribbean
This 'Tracing your roots' section of the 'Moving here' web site gives a great deal of information to help trace your Caribbean roots
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/ galleries/ roots/ caribbean/ caribbean.htm

Slave Trade Archives
A Unesco project with the aim of safeguarding and improving access to original documents related to the transatlantic slave trade and slavery throughout the world. Click the links in this section for web sites, documents and other information. See also the menu at the left for 'Slavery in Africa' and 'Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean'.
http://portal.unesco.org/ ci/ admin/ ev.php?URL_ID=8780&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1120053951

SVG Ancestry
Family history research site for St. Vincent & the Grenadines
http://www.svgancestry.com/

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