British Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories
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Welcome
Welcome to the British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories Project. BCDOTs for short!
Mission
This project is a forum for WikiTree members interested in creating, improving and collaborating on profiles of people who lived in British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories. Project members can focus on specific geographical or other areas of interest. The goal of the project is to improve the quality and quantity of profiles of people who lived in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
Crown Dependencies
The Crown Dependencies are the:
- Bailiwick of Jersey
- Bailiwick of Guernsey
- Isle of Man
Within the Bailiwick of Guernsey there are three separate jurisdictions: Guernsey (which includes the islands of Herm and Jethou); Alderney; and Sark (which includes the island of Brecqhou). The islands of the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey are known geographically as the Channel Islands.
The Crown Dependencies are not part of the UK but are self-governing dependencies of the Crown. This means the United Kingdom is solely responsible for the defence of the Dependencies, and provides international representation for them, but the Dependencies have their own directly elected legislative assemblies, administrative, fiscal and legal systems and their own courts of law. The Crown Dependencies are not represented in the UK Parliament. They are not members of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Overseas Territories
The fourteen British Overseas Territories are territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom; they do not, however, form part of it. Instead, they are those parts of the former British Empire that have not acquired independence or have voted to remain British territories. While each has its own internal leadership, most being self-governing, they share the British monarch as head of state.
The British Overseas Territories are
- Anguilla
- Bermuda
- British Antarctic Territory
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Falkland Islands
- Gibraltar
- Montserrat
- Pitcairn Islands
- Saint Helena
- Ascension
- Tristan da Cunha
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Cyprus)
- Turks and Caicos Islands
How to Join
Right now this project has one leader; Elizabeth Viney. We also have the following wonderful WikiTree members who will be focusing on their special areas of interest:
- Mark Rogers Coordinator for Isle of Man sub-project
- Ian Speed - Jersey
- Stu Ward - Bermuda sub-project
- Jo Fitz-Henry - general project admin
- Ed Dunscombe - interested in Bermuda
- Karen Gunn - interested in Guernsey
- Pat Reynolds - interested in South Georgia and Tristan de Cunha
- Alan Davis - the de Carteret family, Channel Islands - particularly Sark
- Susie MacLeod - Hendy family, Jersey
- Mark Lemen - Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Cyprus)
- Noa-Charles Heermans - categories for Jersey. Please reach out to Noa if you need a new Jersey category
- Eddie (Andrews) Bosano-Andrews - Gibraltar
Would you like to join us? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!
Task List
Our project members:
- take responsibility for managing profiles or family groups and work on adding sources, merging duplicates, correcting information and adding categories
- respond to questions on G2G
- gather together research resources and guidance to support members
- collaborate with other projects with historical or geographical links to the BOTCDs
Pre-1700
If you wish to create pre-1700 profiles for people who were born or died in any of these places it is important that a reliable source is used at the time of profile creation. This is the help page that covers creating pre-1700 profiles. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Pre-1700_Profiles User generated family trees and Family Search person profiles are not considered reliable for the purposes of pre-1700 profile creation.
Links
- Channel Islands Research Resources
- Diocese of St. Helena, Parish Registers and Indices
- Place names for St Helena, Ascension and Trostan da Cunha
- Isle of Man sticker
- Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit and add images.
- Private Messages: Send a private message to the Profile Manager. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
I have extensive Gibraltarian ancestry thanks to my Gibraltarian mother.
I have actually identified every single one of my ancestors born in Gibraltar all of whom have profiles on WikiTree.
I'm more than happy to help or give advice to anyone trying to trace ancestors from Gibraltar.
Cheers, Elizabeth
Cheers, Elizabeth
I'd like to join this project. I've been working on the de Carterets for quite some time as they are part of my family group. My particular interest is the Sark mob, but I've also got many connections in Jersey & Guernsey. Cheers Alan
Any chance we could have some location sticker templates added for the above Dependencies/Territories?
I have a few family profiles to which they could be added and I’m sure there must be others needing the same.
Kind regards
Malc.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
and IWM digital database for participants in WW1 (also searchable by name) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/searchlives/bermuda/filter/type%3Dcommunity
edited by D Grosvenor