Tracing Ancestors in Barbados - Book Details
Tracing Ancestors in Barbados: A Practical Guide
by Geraldine Lane
Published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, USA
www.genealogical.com
Paperback 6x9 ins 155 pages
Price: US$18.95, Bds$38.00
Tracing Ancestors in Barbados is a guide to records held in these
places:
- Barbados Department of Archives
- Library of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society
- Barbados National Library Service
- Library of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
- Barbados Registration Department
Under these chapter headings, original records, websites and
published sources are described:
- Getting started
- Important dates in the history of Barbados
- List of archives
- Has it been done before?
- The Journal of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and
Caribbean
- Records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial
- Catholic, Jewish and non-conformist records
- Census records and other lists of people
- Wills, letters of administration and inventories
- Gravestones and cemetery records
- Newspapers and directories
- Deeds and powers of attorney
- Plantation and land ownership
- Maps
- Island administration
- Military records
- Immigrations and emigration
- Slave records
- DNA
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Tracing Ancestors in Barbados
has received very positive reviews:
In Tracing Ancestors in
Barbados: A Practical Guide, Geraldine Lane has produced a
most-needed handbook to the records and sources for tracing the
island's families. read more....
The Dallas Morning News, USA, 5 Feb 2006
Geraldine Lane has used her
skills as a professional genealogist to write this very accessible
and readable guide. read more....
Guy Grannum (author of Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors)
Family History Monthly, England
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