Guanica Digitized Church Records 1885 – 1944
Guanica, which is west from Yauco on the island of Puerto Rico, was once part of Yauco until 1914. It was then that it established itself as its own municipality. If you have done research in PARES (see prior posts), then you may have come across records from the early 1500s when Guaynia was the…
Adjuntas Digitized Church Records 1812 – 1952
The municipality of Adjuntas is north of Yauco and was established in 1815. The municipality exists off a mountainside. The area is known for its cooler temperatures and was once part of the Coamo. The church for this municipality when it was established is San Joaquin. Most of the baptism books have indexes either in…
Manumissions on Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Jamaica
Manumissions is the act in which a slave owner frees their slaves. When Britain ended slavery, many slaves were manumitted and their masters were compensated for freeing them. Some were manumitted even prior to the end of slavery. While there are manumissions records available for Trinidad and Tobago, it will require that you make a…
Bahamas Chancery, Dower, and Court Records 1791 to 1917
Chancery records are actually extremely important in researching your ancestry. Whether your ancestors are European, African or African descent, or Native American. These types of records help you in figuring out if the ancestor you seek will be listed. The Bahamas Chancery, Dower, and Court Records 1791 to 1917 are worth a review. When it…
Bahamas Digitized Estate Appraisals, Leases and Wills from the 1700s through 1900s
One of the hardest things to do is reading documents of Estate Appraisals and seeing humans listed as property. For those of us that descend from these ancestors, it is a hard pill to swallow. Therefore, it is difficult task to read pricing next to a name. I praise these ancestors and place them on…
Dominica – Wills from 1700s through 1938
I was excited to discover wills were available in the digitized format on the FamilySearch website. The records are a collection from manuscripts in the Supreme Court Registry located in Roseau. Unfortunately, the available images can only be viewed from a Family History Center (FHC). It eliminates the step of needing to order and pay…