Introduction
Digitized Records are an excellent find for the researcher. The records are part of a grant received from the British Digital Library. I believe these links will help many who have ancestors with connections to the Caribbean islands. I will be adding more as I find them. This will be the first of many. Good Luck!
About the Project
The Programme
The Endangered Archives Programme seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. To achieve this we provide grants to applicants to digitize and document archives. ‘Endangered’ means material that is at risk of loss or decay and is located in countries where resources and opportunities to preserve such material are lacking or limited. ‘Archives’ refers to materials in written, pictorial or audio formats, including manuscripts, rare printed books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, photographs, and sound recordings. The material can date from any time before the middle of the twentieth century, though archives that cross over to some extent into the second half of the twentieth century may be accepted if the majority of the material is earlier. It is one of our key principles that the original material remains in the country in which it is located.
The British Library
Digitization of endangered African diaspora collections at the significant archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba
Digitized Records for Cuba
Digitized Records for Jamaica
Survey-JamaicaEAP148/2: “Angela Reid Collection (Birth, Baptismal, and Death Registers) [1795-1965]” (1795-1965)
- EAP148/2/1: Burials [1795-1799] (1795-1799)
- EAP148/2/2: “Baptisms, Marriages, Burials [1798-1804]” (1798-1804)
- EAP148/2/3: Baptisms [1800-1814] (1800-1814)
- EAP148/2/4: “Baptisms, Marriages, Burials and Confirmations [1804-1807]” (1804-1807)
- EAP148/2/5: Baptisms [1832-1836] (1832-1836)
- EAP148/2/6: New Orleans Collection [1795-1823] (1795-1823)
