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Jo-Anne
was born in and officially resides in T&T, but
has been known to frequently jump on a plane for
study and research trips abroad. Apart from her
love of travelling and learning, her real loves are
Jesus
and linguistics
(languages too). She is a graduate of the
University
of the West Indies,
St. Augustine campus, where she completed her
doctoral thesis on the social history of the
Portuguese language in Trinidad and
Tobago in 1999. On the genealogy
front, Jo-Anne's first inspiration was one of her
cousins. Genealogy simply and logically appealed to
her collector's instincts! In 1984, on the occasion
of their grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary,
Jo-Anne compiled their immediate family tree with
some help from cousin Jacinta, who was actually the
first in the family to begin documenting their
rather large Ferreira family forest. (Interestingly, Jacinta's daughter, Alicia has recently produced a short film called "Luso-Trinidad" (2008), whose title was inspired by Jo-Anne's research into the Luso-Trinidadian community - a circle of inspiration.) Since those early beginnings,
slow but definite progress has been made for both
sides of Jo-Anne's family, on both the vertical and
horizontal planes. One of her Madeiran great-grandparents was from Machico,
in the eastern part of Madeira. Click
here
for more on how Jo came to research the history of
the Luso-Trinbagonian community (the Portuguese community of T&T), and
here
for information on her first book. (Please note that this book is currently out of print, but will be reprinted in a revised and updated edition in the near future.� See Jo-Anne's e-mail below for keeping in touch about this and other publications.) Check out Calvinadage on Facebook. e-mail
Jo-Anne at jsferreira (a) yahoo.com Dean is a civil
engineer by training, and works in the construction
business. Computers are his hobby, and the little
ones in the picture are the reason he became
interested in genealogy. Dean is the
volunteer Country Coordinator for the Trinidad and
Tobago Genealogy Project (TriniGenWeb),
a part of WorldGenWeb,
and has a personal site called Dean's
Family History. e-mail
Dean at deandef (a) bellsouth.net |
Dean
was born in Trinidad, and moved to the U.S at the
age of 11. There were quite a few Trinis around
while he was growing up in Miami, so the memories
of "home" were never far behind.