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AfriGeneas Caribbean Research Forum
[CARIB] slave registers, by name and surname
THIS IS A LIST OF SLAVE WEBSITES IN THE FORMER BRITISH COLONIAL CARRIBEAN AND FORMER SPAIN COLONIAL PUERTO RICO. YOUR ANCESTORS NAMES MAY BE WRITTEN ON ONE OF THESE SLAVE WEBSITES. THESE WEBSITES LIST ACTUAL NAMES OF THE SLAVES. I FIRST LIST THE FORMER BRITISH COLONIAL CARRIBEAN AS YOU SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE I LISTED THE ANTEPASADO ESCLAVOS(SLAVES) FOR PUERTO RICO WEBSITE. -------------------------------------Http://WWW.search.ancestry.co.uk this is the web site to search your slave relatives in the COLONIAL BRITISH carribean from 1812-1834, by name, YOU CAN SEARCH YOUR SLAVE ANCESTORS BY NAME ON THIS WEBSITE. This website has "slave registers of former british colonial dependencies 1812-1834 digitised and indexed images of the slaves, this quote taken from the above website. the colonial dependencies are listed as: any antiqua bahamas barbados berbice dominica grenada hondurus jamaica mauritis nevis sri lanka st christopher st lucia st vincent tobago trinidad virgin islands. ------------------------------------- ANOTHER WEBSITE THAT CAN GET YOU TO THE SLAVE REGISTERS OF FORMER BRITISH COLONIAL DEPENDENCIES IS: HTTP://WWW.CARRIBEAN ROOTS.CO.UK/ READ THE PARAGRAPHS AS YOU SCROLL DOWN THEY WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO CLICK TO ARRIVE AT THE SLAVE REGISTERS. -------------------------------------- if your carribean ancestors immigrated to america between 1892-1924 go to www.ellisisland.org(this includes puerto ricans, puerto rico, dominican republic is part of the spanish carribean)and Haiti(french carribean) during this time your ancestors were free and decided to immigrate to america for opportunity. hundreds immigrated. you will find the passenger record and ships manifest of your ancestor,lots of information about your ancestor are on these records, and the ships manifest is often loaded with two pages of informaton on your ancestor and guess what? this is a free website, no charge, just fill out the application and search. sometimes, the surnames are spelled slightly different as another person is transcribing their names so try various spelling and you will find them. example; carty, can be spelled carti, cardy, mccarty, mccarthy, cordeu, etc. you get my point, by now. ------------------------------------ if your ancestors were puertorican slaves: see web site below: antepasado esclavos www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com OR GOOGLE: ANTEPASADO ESCLAVOS -------------------------------------- ponce puerto rican census 1920 http://member.aol.com/pietro/feli/indexc.htm -------------------------------------- HAPPY Searching. |