West Indies - Caribbean Region Master Project

What can you do here?

• Ask questions.
• Collaborate on your research.
• Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.
• Problem finding an ancestors , open a discussion here and we all try to help
• Start your own related project.
• Add your profiles.
• Start or take part in a discussion

How to Contribute

• Please click the "Join Project" button on the upper right of the project page.
• After getting yourself added as a collaborator for the surname, select the profile of the prominent West Indian you wish to add.
• Navigate to the profile. Under the "More Actions" link, choose "Add to Project" and select sub-project to which your ancestor should be included in.
• Include in the "About Me" section a brief biographical sketch, summarizing the person's significant contributions and accomplishments. (Required)
• Include a photograph, if one exists.
• Mark the profile as "public" and not "private". (Required)

PROJECTS

1. African-, Afro-Americans throughout the Americas / Black History - Master Project
2. Albury Family of the Bahamas
3. American Slaves
4. Americas Immigration
5. Ashanti Diaspora
6. Bahamians
7. Barbados: Eminent Planters (1673)
8. Bermuda
9. British West Indies Planters
10. Chinese in the Caribbean
11. Colonial Americas - Portal
12. Families of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
13. Families of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
14. Famous Cricketers
15. Free Colored Women in Barbados: 1780-1834
16. Governors of Suriname
17. Higgs Family of the Bahamas
18. Indian Wars of the Caribbean
19. Indigenous peoples of North, Central and South America -Portal
20. Jamaica "Out Of Many, One People"
21. Jamaica - Lost Traces
22. Jamaica, West Indies, 1823 Census
23. Jamaican Families in Hartford, Connecticut, 1940-Present
24. Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War
25. Jewish immigrants to the Caribbean
26. Koninklijke West-Indische Maildienst 1883-1927
27. Latina / Latino Entertainers of the Golden Age (US)
28. Latino American entertainers
29. Lebanese of Jamaica
30. Maroons of Jamaica
31. Migration, Emigration , Surnames, Ancient Planters, Project list
32. Migrations: Emigration from Africa
33. New Amsterdam - Origins: African Immigrants
34. Notable Latinas of the Americas
35. Notable West Indian Americans and Canadians
36. Palmares Republic in Brazil
37. Puerto Rico colonial
38. Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857
39. Spanish American War
40. Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles Portal
41. The 1671 Bahamas Census
42. U.S. Virgin Islands
43. 100 Great Black Britons

SUBGROUPS

1 Etymology

2 Definition

3 Geography and climate

• A General Topography of North America and the West Indies. London: R. Sayer & T. Jefferys, 1768.

3.1 Island groups

3.2 Historical groupings

3.3 Modern day island territories

3.4 Continental countries with Caribbean coastlines and islands

4 Biodiversity

5 Demographics

5.1 Indigenous tribes

• Arawak (Taino)
• Carib (Calybe)
• Ciboney

5.2 Language

5.3 Religion

6 Politics

6.1 Regionalism

6.1.1 United States effects on regionalism

6.1.2 European Union effects on regionalism

7 Regional institutions

8 Cuisine

8.1 Favorite or national dishes

9 See also

10 References

11 Further reading

• The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families: Fairfax
• The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard.
• Thomas Walker d. 1722 The Bahamas
• Journal of a West India Proprietor: Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
• Reconstructing the Black Image by Gordon De la Mothe

12 External links