Caribbean-American Heritage Month

This June marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of National Caribbean-American Heritage Month.

There are plenty of great resources online to help you find your ancestors in the Caribbean. Here a few:

Caribbean Genealogy Research
Includes lists of country-specific resources, records depositories, and a surname index.

Caribbean Family History
Databases of burials, religious records, and slave compensations primarily for Barbados.

Cuban Genealogy Center
Links for Cuban genealogy records.

Genealogy of Jamaica
Information and online resources for Jamaican genealogy.

Puerto Rican Hispanic Genealogical Society
Articles and resources for research in Puerto Rico.

You can also search FamilySearch's collections for the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica. Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and the US Virgin Islands.

Researching Haiti

Did your ancestors come from Haiti? Where can you find resources for Haitian family research?

Haiti is on the Caribbean / West Indies page of Cyndi'a List.

It is also included in Caribbean Gen Web, and on the Haiti Page of the Family Search Catalog, which will provide the microfilm numbers you need at the Family History Center.

Subscribe to the Haiti Mailing List and consult the experts in Haitian genealogy. Don't forget to search the list Archives.

Search the vital records database at the website of the Haitian Genealogical Society.

It is also a good idea to search the Library's genealogy databases using the keyword "Haiti."