Online Resources for Guyana

Some online research resources:

The Guyana / British Guiana Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/index.htm Be sure to read: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/Research.htm The Guyana / British Guiana Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/index.htm Guyana/British Guiana Genealogy Society Forum http://guyanagen.proboards.com/index.cgi  Guyana Genealogical and Biographical Society http://guygenbiosociety.blogspot.com/ This blog contains transcribed newspaper anouncements of birth, marriage, and death, and some biographies and photos.

Chinese in Guyana: their roots http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guycigtr/

British Guiana Colonists http://www.vc.id.au/tb/ is an index to colonists.  Guyana Colonial Newspapers http://www.vc.id.au/edg/index.html Guyana - Family History &amp; Genealogy Message Boards http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.southam.guyana/mb.ashx  Guyana Genealogy Queries http://www.cousinconnect.com/p/a/74/

Guyana government addresses http://www.candoo.com/genresources/#GUYANA Guyana Government Information Agency http://www.gina.gov.gy/ (passports, birth certificates) http://www.gina.gov.gy/govservicesbenefits.html  Afrigeneas African-American genealogy and has searchable records and slave data. There are discussion forums about tracing family from the Caribbean, including Guyana. http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-carib/

A Guyana genealogy message board http://groups.yahoo.com/group/guyanese_genealogy/message/756

The British National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp  1909 Argosy Directory of British Guiana- a list of prominent people. http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&amp;m=528&amp;p=localities.southam.guyana.general Family History Centers in Guyana: Georgetown 367-370 Prashad Nagar Georgetown, Guyana Note: These are not mailing addresses. Due to limited staff, Family History Centers are unable to respond to mail inquiries. If you live in the area, see if they can help you.

Supplementary: An excellent article on the country and its history can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana  Parliament of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana http://www.parliament.gov.gy/  University of Guyana (no family history listed) http://uog.edu.gy/search/node  The National Library of Guyana has newspapers, yearbooks, historical writings and photographs. http://www.natlib.gov.gy/ 2002 census of Guyana, but seems to give no access to anything other than basic statistics, and no access to earlier censuses. http://www.statisticsguyana.gov.gy/census.html Guyana News and Information http://www.guyana.org/ Discussion on indentured East Indians in Guyana (projected database of East Indian Indentured Servants) http://www.guyana.org/noncgi/forum/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20020321-1-004321-3.html Online forum with family history interests http://www.guyana.org/cgi-bin/Directory/guydir.cgi?act=N  Georgetown, Guyana News http://www.topix.com/gy/georgetown  The National Trust of Guyana seems to be concerned with preserving historic buildings rather than family history. http://www.nationaltrust.gov.gy/