5 Tips to Find Missing British Caribbean Ancestors

What do you do if your ancestor is missing in the records?
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In this video, I walk you through 5 Tips for searching for Caribbean ancestors that were involuntarily relocated or voluntarily moved between islands. This video focuses on British Caribbean islands.
🕰 Content
0:20 Intro
0:40 Question
1:15 Tip 1: Know the Time Period
02:23 Tip 2: Understand the Economy
02:51 Tip 3: Know the Geography
05:16 Tip 4: Health and Environment
06:24 Tip 5: Follow the Money
06:57 Bonus: Locating Enslaved Ancestors
10:27 Close
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📚 Resources
Guy Grannum: Tracing Your Caribbean Ancestors
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Southwark Libraries: Tracing your Caribbean family
www.southwark....
UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs
Family Search Wiki
www.familysear...
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[@gwynepin]

Thank you! Will check the archive you mentioned. Don't know the plantation owner yet, but stuck in the 1850's regarding Jost van Dyke as the last birth documents I found were on Tortola. Mind you started on the Dominican Republic, than went back to St Thomas (1889) to than find out there was a DNA connection to Tortola which is where I found Jost van Dyke.

[@CarolinePomKiOz]

My 2nd Great Grandfather Phillip Duprey (diff name varieties) was born in Trinidad 1852, give or take 1 year.
The first record is him in the UK 1980 with his wife and first child, as a British Subject.
This is a challenge.
Your info should be helpful. Thabk you.

[@tayoosiyemi5130]

Great video!🤎

[@prospectolatino]

Love your videos ❤

[@reisanderson9069]

My moms dad is st Lucian and I virtually don’t know anything about his family , unlike Jamaican records which are abundant st Lucian records are scarce online do you know anyway I can get st Lucian records going back too slavery period please I really need your help

[@az1infin268]

You seem less jolly in this video. Wah badda you Dr Dex?

[@islandancestors2381]

All good. :-) This was my first recording after a long break while getting used to a new setup. Thank you for asking!

[@az1infin268]

@@islandancestors2381 You plant daddy, humanitarian types often don't take care of yourself as well as you take care of others, so just checking. Good to hear you're good, now let's get that good to great, by any means necessary, shout out to the Excellent Malcom X. For Greatness deserves no less than Great, don't let them try and tell you otherwise. Big up yourself Dr Dex.

[@goodmoonfarm7270]

Wow! So impressed and excited by your excellent and super interesting videos. Thank you Dexter. 🙏🏼 I’m on a deep (life long) Caribbean history journey to. 🙌🏽It would be a real pleasure to chat - soon - and share some of the threads in this intriguing web. I’m easy to find in Tortola …my number is out there - or Instagramable . Nuff respect countryman ;-) ✊🏽 Aragorn