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$21.00, Bds$42.00 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