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Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors, Second expanded edition, by Guy Grannum; 208 pg; Paperback; 7.5x9.75; ISBN: 978-1-903365-38-4; 2002; Item TNA16
This revised illustrated guide introduces British researchers to the main sources available, including electoral and tax returns, land grants, colonial civil servants, the West Indies regiments and the Slave Compensation Commission. ”Research into West Indian ancestry” is a relatively new and much neglected area of study in the U.K. This revised illustrated guide introduces researchers to the main sources available at The National Archives and elsewhere, including electoral and tax returns, land grants, colonial civil servants, the West Indies regiments and the Slave Compensation Commission. This is the only title currently available which brings together the wide range of sources available to researchers of West Indian ancestry. It includes details of recent accessions to The British National Archives, in particular relating to the First World War military service records, the British West Indies Regiment and records of service for the merchant navy. It has been updated to include all the administrative changes at The British National Archives since publication of the first edition and information about the NA's online services.
Contents Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction - First Steps
- Who are the West Indians?
- How do I start my research?
- My ancestor was a slave. Where do I start?
- …..Records to start your research with
- …..Surnames
- What can I find on the internet?
- What does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hold?
- Is there anything I should know about using archives and libraries?
- How do I make best use of the Public Record Office?
- Records of the Colonial Office
- Original correspondence
- Entry books
- Acts
- Sessional papers
- Government gazettes
- Miscellanea
- …..Blue Books of Statistics
- …..Naval office returns
- …..Newspapers
- Registers of correspondence
- Registers of out-letters
- Migration to the West Indies
- Emigration: general records
- …..Passenger lists
- …..Passports
- …..Naturalization
- Indentured servants
- Transportation
- Slave trade
- Liberated Africans
- East Indians
- American loyalists
- Life Cycle Records
- Records of births, marriages and deaths
- …..Church registers
- …..Slave registers
- …..Civil registers
- Censuses and other listings
- Wills and grants of administration
- …..Local records
- …..Prerogative Court of Canterbury
- Land and Property Records
- Land grants
- Maps and plans
- Plantation records
- Military and Related Records
- Army
- …..Records of service
- …..Other records
- …..West Indian regiments
- …..Records of West Indian regiments
- …..Militia
- Royal Navy
- …..Records of service
- …..Other records
- …..Royal Naval Reserve
- …..Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
- …..Naval dockyards
- Royal Marines
- …..Records of service
- …..Other records
- …..Colonial marines
- Royal Air Force
- …..Records of service
- …..Other records
- Merchant navy
- …..Records of service
- …..Other records
- Slaves
- Slave Registry and the Slave Compensation Commission
- …..Slave Registry
- …..Slave Compensation Commission
- Other records
- …..Colonial Office returns
- …..Reports of protectors of slaves
- …..Manumissions (grants of freedom)
- …..Acts on the status, condition and treatment of slaves
- The Colonial Civil Servant
- Migration from the West Indies
- Migration to the United Kingdom
- West Indian migration outside the United Kingdom
- …..Records of the Foreign Office
- …..Immigration Records
- …..Registers of births, marriages and deaths
- British West Indies Resources
- British West Indies, general
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bay Islands
- Belize (formerly British Honduras)
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Dominica
- Federation of the West Indies
- Grenada
- Guyana (formerly British Guiana)
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Montserrat
- Nevis
- St Christopher (St Kitts)
- St Lucia
- St Vincent and Grenadines
- Tobago
- Trinidad
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Windward Islands
- Records of the Non-British West Indies
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic (formerly Santo Domingo)
- France
- Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue)
- Honduras
- Netherlands
- Panama
- Spain
- Sweden
- United States of America
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