How To. . .
1. RootsWeb.com
http://www.rootsweb.com
2. Family History Project.com:
http://www.familyhistoryproject.com/
3. Genealogy.com:
http://www.genealogy.com
4. Ancestry.com:
http://www.ancestry.com
5. Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day
Saints:
http://www.familysearch.org/
6. Cyndi's List:
http://www.cyndislist.com/
7. Genealogy Printers.com
http://www.genealogyprinters.com/catalog/default.php
8. Census Headings
http://www.skpub.com/genie/headings/1930.html
9. Data Entry Guidelines - Family History
Center
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/5802/images/FAQ/047i.html
10. How to Transcribe Cemetery Data
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/howto.html
11. National Genealogical Society
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org
Caribbean Information
& Genealogy
1. RootsWeb Caribbean Message Boards:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.caribbean
2. Candoo.com Caribbean Genealogy:
http://www.candoo.com/genresources/
3. RootsWeb.com Caribbean List:
Subscribe to the list in e-mail mode by sending a message to
CARIBBEAN-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe
and nothing else.
4. Caribbean GenWeb:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/
5. Caribbean Genealogy Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/caribbeangenweb/
6. Anne-Marie Danet's French Heritage:
Web site:
http://www.geocities.com/danfrhist/
Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frenchintheantilles/
7. University of the Virgin Islands/USVI
Libraries Funeral Booklets:
http://webpac.uvi.edu/imls/project2002/booklets.shtml
8. RootsWeb Social Security Death Index:
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
9. African Genealogy:
http://www.afrigeneas.com/
10. Caribbean Avenue Genealogy Message
Board:
http://www.caribbeanavenue.com/discussion/genealogy/
11. Virgin Islands Daily News (News &
Obits.):
http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/
12. St. Thomas Source.com (News & Obits):
http://new.onepaper.com/stthomasvi/
13. BVI Island Sun (News & Some Notices
of Deaths):
http://www.islandsun.com/
14. Political Graveyard:
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VI/ZZ.html
15. USVI Danish Cemeteries:
http://www.dkconsulateusvi.com/HDC/index.html
16. New York Ship & Passenger Listings at
Ellis Island:
http://www.ellisisland.org/
17. Interment (mostly USA & World Wide
Cemeteries, but does have a listing for Puerto Rico)
http://www.interment.net -- West
Indies Cemeteries (as of Jan. 2005, only Barbados listed
http://www.interment.net/other/wi/index.htm )
18. Dante Beretta's St. Thomas Western
Municipal Cemetery Site
http://homepage.mac.com/dberetta/WesternCemetery/Personal5.html
19. Churches in the USVI (informational
link)
http://www.usvi-info.com/infousvi/pr990803-churches.html
20. History and Tour of Virgin Gorda,
British Virgin Islands
http://savezoneinc.net/virgingorda/
21. Anegada Roots (British Virgin Islands
Families by M. Wheatley)
http://martyspringer.com/TheDrum/index.html
22. Caribbean Tombstones
http://www.tombstones.bb/tombstones/caribbean/index.html
23. Early Population of the Dutch West
Indies
http://home.swipnet.se/saba/dwipoplist2.html#top
24. Caribbean Discussion Message Board
http://www.caribbeanavenue.com/discussion/genealogy/
United States Virgin
Islands
Slaves in St.
Thomas (excerpt taken from St. Thomas This Week):
"St. Thomas, unlike the islands of St. Croix and St. John, was not an
important agricultural economy. Commerce was what St. Thomas was about
and because of that there was not the need for the same vast number of
field slaves required on other islands. Instead, many slaves were
craftsmen or worked on the docks and were in a better position to obtain
their freedom. Known as free-coloreds, their number was large enough
that the area known as Savan, in back of the Main Street Market Place,
was established as a place for them to live. Houses were often one-story
frame buildings, called long-rows, a room or two for each family with a
common yard for coal pot cooking and bathroom facilities."
Registrar
Addresses
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/virlands.htm
|
St. Thomas/St. John |
St. Croix |
Event:
Birth or death, St. Thomas and St. John
Cost of copy: $15.00 (Mail request)
$12.00 (In person)
Address:
Department of Health
Vital Statistics
Knud Hansen Complex
St. Thomas, VI 00802
Remarks:
Registrar has had birth records on file since July 1906 and death
records since January 1906. Money order for birth and death
records should be made payable to Department of Health.
Personal checks are not accepted. To verify current fees, the
telephone number is (340) 774-9000 ext. 4685
or 4686.
|
Event:
Birth or death,
![[>]](../images/indent.gif) St.
Croix
Cost of copy: $15.00 (Mail request)
$12.00 (In person)
Address:
Department of Health
Vital Statistics
Charles Harwood Memorial Hospital
St. Croix, VI 00820
Remarks: Registrar has had birth and death
records on file since 1840. |
Event:
Marriage, St. Thomas and St. John
Cost of copy: $2.00
Address:
Clerk of the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands
Family Division
P.O. Box 70
Charlotte Amalie
St. Croix, VI 00801 |
Event:
Marriage, St. Croix
Cost of copy: $2.00
Address:
Chief Deputy Clerk
Family Division
Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands
P.O. Box 929
Christiansted
St. Croix, VI 00820
Remarks: Money order for marriage records should
be made payable to Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands.
Personal checks are not accepted. |
Event:
Marriage (USVI)
Cost of copy: See remarks
Address:
Bureau of Vital Records and Statistical Services
Virgin Islands Department of Health
Charlotte Amalie
St. Thomas, VI 00801
Remarks: Certified copies are not available.
Inquiries will be forwarded to the appropriate office. |
Event:
Divorce (USVI)
Cost of copy: See remarks
Address:
Bureau of Vital Records and Statistical Services
Virgin Islands Department of Health
Charlotte Amalie
St. Thomas, VI 00801
Remarks: Certified copies are not available.
Inquiries will be forwarded to the appropriate office. |
Event:
Divorce, St. Thomas and St. John
Cost of copy: $5.00
Address:
Clerk of the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands
Family Division
P.O. Box 70
Charlotte Amalie
St. Croix, VI 00801
Remarks: Money order for marriage and divorce
records should be made payable to Territorial Court of the Virgin
Islands. Personal checks are not accepted. |
Event:
Divorce, St. Croix
Cost of copy: $5.00
Address:
Chief Deputy Clerk
Family Division
Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands
P.O. Box 929
Christiansted
St. Croix, VI 00820
Remarks: Money order for divorce records should
be made payable to Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands.
Personal checks are not accepted. |
Caribbean
Genealogy Library
Al Cohen's Mall, Havensight
St. Thomas, VI 00802
Tel: (340) 714-2136
Sarah Lugo, Librarian:
Trevista@attglobal.net
Mailing Address:
9718 Estate Thomas, Suite 18
St. Thomas, VI 00802-2672
The Whim Museum
(St. Croix Landmarks Society)
St. Croix Landmarks Society
52 Estate Whim
(located on Centerline Road - Rt. 70)
Frederiksted, St. Croix VI 00840
Tel (340) 772-0598
Fax (340) 772-9446
landmark@viaccess.net
Virgin Islands
Newspapers
Virgin
Islands Daily News - published in St. Thomas, distributed in St.
Thomas, St. Croix, St. John, Water Island and the British Virgin
Islands. It is the "major" paper read in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
www.dailynews.vi
The VI Source - published in St.
Thomas, online newspaper
St. John:
www.onepaper.com/stjohnvi
St. Croix:
www.onepaper.com/stcroixvi
St. Thomas:
www.onepaper.com/stthomasvi
The Avis - published in St. Croix,
not available online but is one oldest and top five papers read in the
U.S. Virgin Islands
The St. John Times: published in
St. John
www.stjohntimes.com
Tradewinds: published in St. John
www.stjohntradewindsnews.com
St. Thomas/St. John This Week:
http://www.st-thomas.com/week/
The BVI Beacon
The BVI Standpoint
(Tortola)
The Island Sun
(BVI)
Platinum News Online
(Tortola)
Other VI/Caribbean
Newspapers
www.caribbeannewspapers.com
