Government of Montserrat radio & TV - As a community radio station ZJB’s programming aims serves a wide variety of audiences. From daily news casts, gospel programs, health corners, government notices, music segments and volcano updates one can tuned in all day and stay informed and entertained.
Tour of the Basics - an animated video from the University of Utah including topics such as what is ...DNA? a gene? a chromosome? a protein? heredity? and a trait? - http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/tour/
DNA from the Beginning from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - this is an excellent indepth discussion of DNA and how it controls everything that goes on within our bodies. There are animations and videos that cover 41 separate topics. This is really only for those who want a deeper understanding of DNA and how it works. Of particular relevance to genealogy, the animation in item 11 presents a discussion of genetic inheritance including an explanation of crossing over (recombination). The item 8 animation covers meiosis and the formation of sex cells (sperm and eggs).
One place to start is the Caribbean Surnames List at www.candoo.com/surnames/index. This is an index to West Indian families being researched and includes the country of interest.
Search telephone directories to find islands with greatest coverage of that family name. Many residential telephone directories (white pages) are online, for example at www.infobel.com/teldir. You still need to search country by country.
- an article by Kate Carter (from 2007) that discusses how to start, where some of the main records are for people who migrated from the caribbean to the UK, and some useful discussion about DNA.
- Rootstech is an annual conference run by FamilySearch that covers many aspects of genealogical research for the beginner and the advanced genealogist. These are videos of each of the sessions.
A clip from the programme Who Do You Think You Are featuring celebrity chef Ainsley Herriot and how he started his search into his family's history in Jamaica.
Society of Genealogists: Library has a good section on the West Indies, containing books about the different islands (including some of the non-British ones like Puerto Rico), and transcripts of parish registers. It also has 'Caribbeana', a series of publications containing transcripts of all kinds of records relating to the British West Indies.
The National Archives: a vast repository of documents and information, it also provides detailed research guides and much more.
Latter Day Saints Family History Centres: an international organisation, which has copied many genealogy records from around the world for researchers to view on microfilm. You can order material to your nearest Family History Centre.
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