Slave Voyage Database & Slave Registers for British Colonies
A great source on researching your African ancestors is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyages website. The website contains over 36,000 Voyages of enslaved Africans. This website covers the entire globe so this will pertain to all islands and countries were Africans were forced into labor.Ancestry also has a great number of databases in their catalog. One…
Researching and Finding Ancestors in Barbados
Just like many of the other Caribbean islands, Barbados has a rich history where today, you can find information online, which includes records. First, let me start with what is currently digitized or even indexed online. A wealth of information is maintained on familysearch.org’s website. The first obvious are databases that contain many different islands…
African Holocaust and the Impacts to Our Ancestors
One thing I have noticed in my research in genealogy is the close of the nonexistence of research of African ancestry over the years. Today more are interested as their DNA is providing a visual into their past; African ancestry. People are now looking to find and understand and are faced with the ugliness that…
Slavery In Brazil – the African Holocaust
One of the harsh realities that we face is knowing how much the Roman Catholic Church ignored in the abuses and deaths that many Africans and their descendants were dealt with. It is the ultimate holocaust that no one discusses nor views it as such; the African Holocaust. The exception to this, of course, is…
US Virgin Islands – Census and Land Records
A wonderful individual on Ancestry by the username awiewall provided me a link to many records available about the islands that were once under Denmark. Thank you again awiewall for sharing this information. The islands of St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas were sold to the USA in 1916 under the Treaty of the…