Do we have a project that covers 17th Century West Indies?

Question

Do we have any specialists for or a project which  would cover West Indies/Nevis/Barbados 17^th Century? I’m not finding anything, am looking in the wrong places or don’t know under what project category West Indies would fall.

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See also https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/120749/west-indies-genealogy-project

Answer 1

Look for the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial America and West Indies.  The records are digitized, lots of volumes

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/cal-state-papers--colonial--america-west-indies

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Does anyone know of a similar collection that covers 1790 - 1810?  Attempting to trace someone from St. Kitts to Trinidad in that period.

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Following. Thanks for the link, Kathie Forbes!

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Thanks Kathie:  this is all very well and good but I have actual photographs of these people passed down through generations.  How does that tie in?

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Not sure I understand your question.  There are no photographs of anyone before the 19th century.  I'm not familiar with other records from the West Indies.

Answer 2

I need help with this too.  I have Roaches, Petersons, Ellis, etc. that were in Barbados for 300 years.  My great-grandad stopped by there in the boar war and married a roach.

People are grabbing my original info on my Barbados ancestors all over the place.  I suggest we have a protected project on this.

I am one of the specialists on this but work alone.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dobson-4936

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Perhaps a place to start would be a Free Space page of sources? My work in this area has generally been restricted to Quakers in the area for which there are a number of published works of a fair degree of accuracy. While under which umbrella a project might fall was sorted, we could put a resource page under Quakers Project though certainly not restrict it to Quakers.

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Thank you T.  I'll work on this but will need help with the Quakers.  My people ended up back in London, US East Coast and here in Canada; they moved out of Barbados shortly after the slave revolt.  Left behind their slaves....