U.S. Virgin Islands Occupation and Business Records

Online Resources

 * 1600s-1900s The Gold Coast (West Indies) at Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives); images
 * This contains information about the colony on the Gold Coast (in present-day Ghana). The two colonies were administratively connected because of the trade in slaves from the Gold Coast to the West Indies. Therefore, material from the Gold Coast is also placed here together with the West Indian. The material primarily concerns trade and accounts.
 * 1600s-1900s Trade (West Indies) at Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives); images
 * This contains material about the Danish trading companies and firms, i.e. correspondence, accounts, lists of goods in the warehouses, ships' cargoes, ships' logbooks, auction lists, payrolls, dividends and much more.
 * 1600s-1900s Shipping (West Indies) at Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives); images
 * This contains information about shipping in the Danish West Indies. The material concerns in particular ships belonging to the trading companies and Danish warships. It consists of e.g. ships' logbooks, inventories, accounts, ships' papers, cases about privateers and piracy, instructions and cases to do with shipyards and pilots.
 * 1700s-1900s Crafts and service (West Indies) at Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives); images
 * This contains information about private enterprises in the Danish West Indies that were not directly involved in exporting commodities, i.e. everything from banks to butchers, rum stands and other retail trade.
 * 1700s-1900s Health (West Indies) at Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives); images
 * This contains information about the health system in the Danish West Indies. The material concerns e.g. hospitals, quarantine, vaccination, pharmacies, midwives, the district doctor, garrison surgeons and annual medical reports.
 * 1700s-1900s Post and telegraph (West Indies) at Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives); images
 * This contains information about the postal service in the Danish West Indies and the telegraph service that was established in 1872.
 * 1892-1904 Distressed Seamen, 1892-1904 at Caribbean Genealogy Library, images