Jamaica Project

Surnames/tags: Jamaica Black_Heritage African_Diaspora

This project is a subproject of the Caribbean Project

Out of Many, One People

Map of Jamaican Parishes.

Contents 1 Mission 2 Membership Requirements 3 Project Tasks 4 Project Teams 5 Stickers 6 Pre-1700 7 Resources 8 Project Members

Mission

This project's goals are:

• To improve Jamaican profiles.
• To add more Jamaican profiles.
• To create categories as needed to organize Jamaican profiles.
• To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting Genealogies for those with Jamaican family.
• To provide and maintain a logical and organized structure, and create a method to link descendants to enslaved ancestors.

Membership Requirements

Requirements for joining:

• Have Family Member level membership and sign the Honor Code
• Declare what you would like to work on within the project

Once you join we ask you to:

• Make at least one contribution towards the project's goals every six months
• Join at least one project team
• Respond to the six-monthly check-in and to your team leader/coordinator

Project Tasks

Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.

• Add more Jamaican family profiles.
• Gather genealogy resources for each location.
• Create space pages based on events in Jamaican history that involves groups of people who need profiles created
• Discuss if the Heritage Exchange Program meets the needs for Jamaica as written.

Project Teams

• Profile Improvement Teams: Creating, categorizing, writing biographies, connecting, sourcing, adding stickers.
• Slavery Teams: Focusing on various aspects of identifying descendants of enslaved people and connecting members to their ancestors.
• Topical Teams: Focusing on the people of historical events, notables, and various topics of interest from the history of Jamaica.

Stickers

If a person was born in Jamaica, please use the sticker {{Jamaica Sticker}} which gives you: If a person has Jamaican ancestors, please use the sticker {{Jamaican Ancestors}} which gives you:

Pre-1700

If you wish to create pre-1700 profiles for people who were born or died in Jamaica 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.

Resources

See: Jamaica Resources
See: Category:Caribbean_Genealogy_Resources

Project Members

Join us by adding your name below and let us know what you are working on related to Jamaica:

• Elizabeth Viney (leader) British slave owners particularly in parish of Westmoreland; their associated families and documentation of their enslaved workers.
• D (Grosvenor) Crawford adding Slave Owner category to British Notables, creating/adding categories so that Jamaica is more visible, creating profiles for Caribbean WW1 participants.
• Steve Thomas
• Anne Fiordalis Jamaican Notables
• George Ramsay: slavery and profile improvement teams.

Will you join us?