Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Civil Registration

Online Collections
* 1765-1870 - , extracts of records and indexes. * 1590-1928 - , index; Also at MyHeritage ($) * 1591-1905 - , index * 1790-1906 - , index

* British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, index and images, ($) * British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)

Offices to Contact
Civil Registry Department Registrar High Court Kingstown

Telephone: 784 457 1220 and 784 451 2944 Fax: 784 457 1888 Email: [mailto:SVGregistryhighcourt@gmail.com SVGregistryhighcourt@gmail.com]

For additional information, see:
 * Births
 * Marriages
 * Deaths

Historical Background
The people are formally called Vincentians and colloquially as Vincies or Vincys. The majority of the population is of Afro-Vincentian descent. A large portion are descendants of English colonists as well as Portuguese and Indian indentured workers.

Coverage and Compliance
All vital records have finally been filmed, digitized and transcribed for the eight inhabited islands that make up the 390 km2 (150 sq mi) of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

With the assistance of the Organization of American States (OAS) the implementation of a Caribbean Civil Registry System (CCRIS) in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was completed in 2013. The project scanned all remaining 468 ledgers at the Civil Registry, consisting a total of 120,320 pages and containing 614,200 birth, death, marriage, adoption and legitimization records.

Online access to these family vital records is not currently available however request should be made through the Registry of Historical Family Records.

A search for Birthplace of IGI on FamilySearch will list over 151,000 records and for the Country will result in 4,400 records for "Saint Vincent", however, these are from Grenada Births and Baptisms, 1866-1891 (231 records) and from Caribbean, Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928 (11 records) mainly for Carriacon† (Grenada, West Indies).

Others are from various regions in the world such as ’Saint Vincent’ (France), ’St Vincent Street’ (Liverpool, England), ‘Kingstown’ (Somerset, NJ), ‘Kingstown’ (Newport, RI), ‘Kingstown’ (MA), ’St Vincent’ (NSW), ’St Vincent (Italy), ’S. Vicente’ (Portugal), and ‘Kingston’ (Jamaica).

The majority of entries are birth place listed on Censuses, Passengers, Border Crossings and Naturalization Lists and even some Military Records as ’St Vincent, British West Indies’ or some variant (St Vincent B.W.I).

† "Carriacon" is a mis-spelling for Carriacou an island that belongs to Grenada, and is not part of the Grenadines or Saint Vincent.

Vital records in physical form are held at the Registry office in Kingstown, St. Vincent.

Births

 * Name of child
 * Place and date of birth
 * Name and maiden name of the mother
 * Name of the father, if provided. "The name of the father may be omitted if he no longer has a relationship with the mother."

Marriages

 * Name and surname of bride
 * Name and surname of groom
 * Date of marriage
 * Place of marriage

Deaths

 * Name of deceased
 * Surname of deceased
 * Date of death
 * Place of death