Saint Kitts and Nevis Genealogy

Caribbean Saint Kitts and Nevis

Guide to Saint Kitts and Nevis ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. Also Saint Christopher-Nevis. Independent nation in the Leeward Islands in the West Indies. On the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea and on the west side of Leeward Islands. Southeast of Puerto Rico and north of Venezuela. See the CIA World Factbook.

Jurisdictions
St. Kitts: England 1624, England and France jointly 1625, England and France partitioned 1626, Spain 1629, England and France partitioned 1630, France 1665, England and France partitioned 1667, France 1689, England 1690?, England and France partitioned 1697, France 1705, Great Britain 1713, independence 1983. Nevis: England 1628, Spain 1629, England 1630, independence 1983.

Saint Kitts and Nevis contains 14 parishes.

Research Tools
The Digital Library fo the Caribbean (dLOC) includes scanned maps, histories, and records of Saint Kitts and Nevis, including the 6-volume Caribbeana.

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