Barbados Resources

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Surnames/tags: black_heritage barbados Slavery

Barbados Project

WikiTree pages

• View Barbados categories Category:Barbados
• Find Barbados profiles to source/connect/improve Category:Barbados,_Maintenance_Categories
• Create Barbados notables Profiles required for Barbados
• Read USBH guidelines Documenting Enslaved People in WikiTree
• Use Holding page for evidence of Barbados slave ownership to document people who require more evidence before a profile can be created.

External resources

FamilySearch advice and resources for Barbados

FamilySearch collections can be searched as a whole on the home page or individually as below
A couple of hints for using these records for Barbados. The 'Caribbean Select' group of transcripts for BMD are generally without images or you have to move through pages to find the exact image. However the same records have been re-scanned and made available under 'Barbados Church Records' and these images very often show the exact birth dates depending on the particular parish. Barbados Civil Registration records also have images.

• "Barbados Church Records, 1637-1887." Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 16 August 2022. Department of Archives, Blackrock.
• "Barbados, Civil Registration, 1900-1931", Database. FamilySearch. https://familysearch.org : 18 July 2022
• "Barbados Baptisms, 1739-1891." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
• "Barbados Marriages, 1854-1879." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
• "Barbados Burials, 1854-1885." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.

The Barbados monument collection
All of the monuments inside of and surrounding 16 Anglican churches in Barbados were recorded, alongside those at plantations. The entire record of monuments (including photos) is open to search and to download for free (for non-commercial use).
Citation Cook, K. (2016) The Barbados monument collection. The Monumental Archive Project. URL: http://katherinercook.github.io/MAP/collections.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plantations_in_Barbados

Introduction to Barbados Genealogy

database of Gittens and interconnecting families
More than 56 thousand names in the database, 50 unique surnames.