Caribbean

Guide to Caribbean ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. Welcome to the Caribbean Page

The countries located in the Caribbean are:
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 * Anguilla (United Kingdom BOT)
 * Antigua and Barbuda
 * Aruba (formerly Netherlands Antilles)
 * Bahamas
 * Barbados
 * Bonaire (BES Islands, formerly Netherlands Antilles)
 * British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom BOT)
 * Cayman Islands (United Kingdom BOT)
 * Cuba
 * Curaçao (formerly Netherlands Antilles)
 * Dominica
 * Dominican Republic
 * Grenada
 * Guadeloupe (French Antilles, France)
 * Haiti
 * Jamaica
 * Martinique (French Antilles, France)
 * Montserrat (United Kingdom BOT)
 * Puerto Rico (United States)
 * Saba (BES Islands, formerly Netherlands Antilles)
 * Saint Barthélemy (French Antilles, France)
 * Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * Saint Lucia
 * Saint Martin (French Antilles, France) northern 60% of the island
 * Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 * Sint Eustatius (BES Islands, formerly Netherlands Antilles)
 * Sint Maarten (BES Islands, formerly Netherlands Antilles) southern 40% of the island
 * Trinidad and Tobago
 * Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom BOT)
 * U.S. Virgin Islands (United States)

For Further Reading

 * Auger, F.R.; Gordon, S.C.; Hall, D.G.; and Reckord, M. The Making of the West Indies. London: Low & Brydone Ltd., 1960.


 * Baker, E.C. A Guide to Records in the Leeward Islands.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965.


 * Baker, E.C. A Guide to Records in the Windward Islands.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968.


 * Burns, Sir Alan. History of the British West Indies.  London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954.


 * Caribbean Archives Conference. Report of the Caribbean Archives Conference Held at The University of the West Indies Mona, Jamaica.  September 20-27, 1965.  Kingston, Government Printer, 1965.


 * Platt, Lyman D. Genealogical Historical Guide to Latin America.  Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978.