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…
Dominica Church Records 1869 to 1934
One of the most confusing things to me as a kid was understanding that Dominica was a different country than the Dominican Republic. Why is that? Well, it may have to do with my neighbor across the street that would babysit me when my grandmother had errands to run. Somehow we got into discussing Dominica,…
Finding a Family History Center for Free Research
While Family Search has an amazing website that provides free access to records, not all are available online to be viewed. Some records have been digitized, some are digitized but only available via a local Family History Center (FHC), or records are available via microfilm, which requires a visit to a a local FHC. I…
Barbados Parochial Digitized Records 1849 – 1886
Many records are now being posted online which will benefit many doing research on their ancestors. While we all wish that all these records were available today, we have to sit patiently until they do become available. A lot of work goes into converting these microfilms into digitized records. Many of these records were filmed…
Barbados Civil and Church Records 1900 – 1930
In researching for records, I came across some more records for Barbados. Hopefully many will benefit from these available records. All links will open in a new windows so ensure that popup blockers are turned off for the website as all posts work in this manner on the blog. The following records are civil records…