Tracing your Caribbean family
Other documents worth collecting
The following list of documents will give you information about your family’s past, the type of people they were and may enable you to make links between family members. Official records, for example, those from school or college, may be sourced locally in the country. It may be possible to undertake a general website search or contact the relevant government department of the country you are searching.
- School records
- Employment records
- Business records
- Documents relating to profession/career
- Personal letters
- Financial documents, e.g. Rates
- Military/Service records
- Newspapers
- Land, property deeds
- Press articles
- Books, e.g. bibles, school books, prayer books
- Awards, gifts, prizes
- Old sayings, characterizations (this can give clues to dates and places)
- Audio visual material (film, photographs, audio tapes)
Page last updated: 15 September 2023
