SAINT THOMAS GENEALOGY

The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online genealogical guide created and maintained by FamilySearch, a non-profit organization. It contains links to genealogy databases, websites, other resources, research strategies, and genealogical guidance to assist in the search for your ancestors. Articles included are locality pages for countries around the world and topic pages that include pertinent genealogy record types explaining how to use the record, what it contains, and how to find it.

The Caribbean Genealogy Library (CGL) is a unique and valuable research library located on the island of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Established in 2000, CGL is a leading resource for family history research in the Virgin Islands and in the Caribbean at large.

Danish Family Search er stedet man finder sine danske aner. Søg i danske kirkebøger, folketællinger og lægdsruller.

Danish Family Search is the place to find your Danish ancestors. Search in Danish church registers, censuses and parish registers.

The Danish National Archives has digitized five million pages from the local and central administration of the Danish West Indies that you can browse through this website. But there are also archive groups and cases concerning the Danish West Indies in the archives of other authorities.

ShipIndex.org simplifies vessel research. Whether you’re a genealogist, a maritime historian, a researcher, or just curious, we can help you learn more about the ships that interest you. We tell you which maritime resources, such as books, journals, magazines, newspapers, CD-ROMs, websites, and online databases mention the ships that interest you. We enhance these references by noting which ones include illustrations or crew and passenger lists, and where you can find or purchase the resource.

The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.

Includes Jewish records from Kingston, Jamaica.

Contains Kingston, Jamaica marriage records, 1788-1920; West Indies grave registration, 1809-ca. 1850; St. Thomas & Jamaica circumcision records, 1800's; St. Thomas & Jamaica birth records, 1800's-1950; St. Thomas & Jamaica death records, 1796-1824.

Compiled from records in the archives of the Jewish Community in Copenhagen.

Ancestry message boards contain over 25 million posts on more than 198,000 boards.

Ancestry message boards contain over 25 million posts on more than 198,000 boards.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean & circum-Caribbean.

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive is an open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean. The materials in the archive are primarily authored and published by Europeans, but the ECDA aims to use digital tools to "remix" the archive and foreground the centrality and creativity of enslaved and free African, Afro-creole, and Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean world.

History Hub is a research support community for everyone, including genealogists, historians, and citizen archivists.

Printed materials and related company files from St. Thomas Graphics, a printing shop located in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, in the late 20th Century.

The Virgin Islands Daily News is a daily newspaper in the United States Virgin Islands headquartered on the island of Saint Thomas.

Virgin Islands Exodus contains material extracted from the first one hundred and seventy-three (out of an orginal one hundred and eighty-four) United States Citizen's Identification Card applications submitted by Virgin Island residents between May 21, and October 9, 1918.

The book of The Danish Cemeteries of the Virgin Islands was commissioned and paid for by the Danish Cemetery Restoration Fund, a fund with the sole purpose of maintaining, repairing and restoring the three Danish Cemeteries located in the United States Virgin Islands. Through the support of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and generous donations from both corporate and private benefactors, the Danish Cemetery Restoration Fund has been able to continue the monumental tasks of preserving these historical grave sites so they may be visited and studied for years to come.

Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world.

We have successfully collected information about thousands of Jewish cemetery sites all over the world along with information on the location of the cemetery, and how to obtain more information. Each Jewish cemetery or burial site listed in the project by town or city, country, and geographic region is based on current locality designation. Some listings include links to other websites with additional information such as burial lists or a name to contact by email or snail-mail.

In 2012 genealogist Maria Smith donated her database of Virgin Islands death and cemetery records to Caribbean Genealogy Library. A name listing only of the St. Thomas and St. John database is linked below. Complete records, often including images of original documents or headstones/gravesites, is available upon request.

The Enid M. Baa Library of the Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DLAM) has acquired an extensive collection of memorial booklets since the early 1970's for U. S. Virgin Islands residents. Booklets are usually more than 10 pages long and give details of the life and family connections of the deceased.

The Caribbean Genealogy Library's Funeral Booklet Collection currently includes almost 4000 funeral booklets for people originally from, or who lived in, the U.S. Virgin Islands and some from the British Virgin Islands also.

In the Gallery you will find photos, postcards and illustrations from the time both before and after the handover to the USA in 1917.

Earl Leaf was a well-established photojournalist who settled in LA in the 1940s.

Granger Academic provides access to Granger's vast and vibrant archive of historical pictures. Many of these images are not available anywhere else, and for the first time we have made our collection available free of charge to teachers, librarians and students.

HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library is an archive of images from the Jewish world. Jewish communities in the Caribbean featured include Aruba, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Eustatius, St. Thomas, and Trinidad.

Harry A. Franck (1881-1962) was a University of Michigan graduate (1903), avid traveler, and veteran of both world wars. He wrote thirty-three travel books describing Europe, South and Central America, China, Japan, and many other places. His most popular books include A Vagabond Journey Around the World (1910) and Zone Policeman 88 (1913). His books routinely featured photographs he took during his journeys: landscapes, street scenes, working people with the tools of their trade, portraits, and snapshots.

Hired by the FSA in 1940 as an itinerant photographer, Jack Delano was assigned in 1941 to the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Delano captured moments of daily life on the islands in both black and white and color.

The Library's first digitization project was called "American Memory." Launched in 1990, it initially planned to choose 160 million objects from its collection to make digitally available on laserdiscs and CDs that would be distributed to schools and libraries. After realizing that this plan would be too expensive and inefficient, and with the rise of the Internet, the Library decided to instead make digitized material available over the Internet. This project was made official in the National Digital Library Program (NDLP), created in October 1994. By 1999, the NDLP had succeeded in digitizing over 5 million objects. The Library has kept the "American Memory" name for its public domain website, which today contains 15 million digital objects, comprising over 7 petabytes.

Mary Evans Picture Library licenses images for use in books, newspapers, exhibitions, websites and all manner of other media. Our images cover a broad range of topics, with the overarching themes of history and film. Our range, however, extends far beyond most people's perception of historical pictures, to include areas such as fashion, design, society and, uniquely, the paranormal.

The Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs is a singular collection of more than 3,500 historical images from 34 countries including Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad. This visual record contains studio portraits, landscapes and tourist views and brings to life the changing economies, environments and communities that emerged post-emancipation. The Collection includes nearly every photographic format available during the years 1840 to 1940, including prints, postcards, daguerreotypes, lantern slides, albums, and stereographs.

M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark tells the story of Denmark as one of the world's leading maritime nations in an evocative and dramatic way.

You can visit the digital image archive here where more than 60.000 photos are digitalized (in Danish).

The National Archives manages 15 million photos. You can view more than one million photos online. The photo collection provides an overview of events from the period between 1865 and 1990.

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

The KITLV image collection holds photographs, prints and drawings that were acquired by The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). Housed at Leiden University Libraries since 2014, as part of the KITLV library collection.

The biggest part of the image collection consists of photographs. Around 1890 the KITLV started collecting photographs for the purpose of documenting the image of the Dutch East and West Indies in all their facets, such as landscapes, town views, architecture, and life under indigenous and Dutch rule and so forth.

A group of concerned citizens established The Trust in 1966 to capture interest and focus energies on preserving the remarkable (and increasingly fragile) heritage of St. Thomas’ archeological and cultural past.

A group of concerned citizens established The Trust in 1966 to capture interest and focus energies on preserving the remarkable (and increasingly fragile) heritage of St. Thomas’ archeological and cultural past.

A group of concerned citizens established The Trust in 1966 to capture interest and focus energies on preserving the remarkable (and increasingly fragile) heritage of St. Thomas’ archeological and cultural past.

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The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 200,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, wall maps, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from around 1550 to the present.

Our mission is to give old maps a new life in the online world via the Old Maps Online search catalog that allows visitors to explore and discover the beauty of historical maps depicting a past geographical place of their interest.

The Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL) Map Collection website is archived as of 2021 and no longer being updated. Links to external sites may no longer work as expected. Please visit the Texas GeoData portal and Collections portal for map files and the UTL Map Collections LibGuide for additional information.

The Caribbean Ritual Dancers have been spreading the joy of dance since 1992. VI warmth and culture with every move!

The Library houses original and microfilm collections of V.I. Archives, records, newspapers and other materials; it is capable of reproducing images via microfilming and photocopying. Microfilm reader/printers are available at certain libraries.

Dansk Vestindisk Selskab with the English subtitle "Danish Westindien Society" was founded on Valentine's Day 15 June 1917 as the club "Danish Westindien" and later reorganized. In 1969, the name was changed to Dansk Vestindisk Selskab, which is nationwide with its headquarters in Copenhagen.

One of our hallmarks of the Danish West Indian Society is to help and guide members in finding their way back in history. This is done partly by means of information and links on this page, partly by personal contacts with other members with experience and partly by contacts with our sister organizations on the islands.

Fireburn Heritage, Inc. is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization on a mission to foster transformative change through collaborations with other nonprofits and like-minded individuals. With a focus on cultural preservation, the humanities, gender equality, zero hunger, and environmental sustainability, our vision is to create a more equitable and inclusive world.

The French Heritage Museum, located in the Frenchtown neighborhood west of Charlotte Amalie, houses artifacts and documents illustrating the lives of the island's French descendants during the 18th through 20th centuries.

Friends of Virgin Islands National Park programs aimed at sharing and preserving the island's rich cultural heritage and history include funding the Park’s archeological program, restoring and maintaining ruins, supporting the Folk Life Festival, and hosting cultural seminars and workshops.

Located in St.Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Harmonic Lodge No. 356 (established Oct 19th, 1818) is one of only two English Masonic Lodges which currently exist on American soil.

Cooperating with the Virgin Islands National Park and the Virgin Islands government, the Trust's Hassel Island Committee has been pursuing its goals to make Hassel Island's history accessible to the public. We aim to maintain, stabilize and restore the trails and historic sites on Hassel Island, and provide interpretive signage to explain these sites' historic use and relevance. Now, trails have been opened to all major historic sites, with tours led for youth groups and Trust members and friends, Further sites are being cleared and stabilization projects are being planned.

Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre (ICC) is a non-profit, independent, educational organization recognized by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. ICC was established in 1999 with its axiom being “Celebrating unity in cultural diversity in the Caribbean.” It is dedicated to publishing two magazines every year – a Divali souvenir magazine, and an Indian Arrival Day commemorative magazine. ICC is primarily committed to the production of information about people, issues and events affecting Hindus and Indians in multi-ethnic Trinidad and the Caribbean.

M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark tells the story of Denmark as one of the world's leading maritime nations in an evocative and dramatic way.

The Museum of Danish America explores the Danish-American experience, the historic and modern influences of Denmark on the United States, and the continuing story of how a nation of immigrants shape American identity.

Group that helps foster friendship with our counterparts in Denmark.

A group of concerned citizens established The Trust in 1966 to capture interest and focus energies on preserving the remarkable (and increasingly fragile) heritage of St. Thomas’ archeological and cultural past.

The US Virgin Islands Maritime Museum was created in order to promote the understanding of the maritime history from the time of the Danish West Indies (pre-March 31.1917) to the present-day US Virgin Islands (March 31.1917, Transfer Day, to present).

In harmony with the mission of the University of the Virgin Islands and its College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center collaboratively serves as a liaison designated to create a reservoir of resources and initiatives for faculty, students, administration, staff and the community to maintain and sustain access to materials that nurture, preserve, research, document, restore, promote, protect and respect Virgin Islands and Caribbean culture.

The Virgin Islands Museum, Civic and Cultural Center, St. Thomas, Inc. is developing a School for Arts and Culture and a modern Cultural/Civic Center and Museum that will provide artists, artisans, tradition bearers, cultural practitioners, storytellers, musicians, dancers, folkloric groups, and the community with a venue to express, share and cultivate traditions, wisdom, art and talents.

Let’s turn your nostalgia and passion into a changing and progressive action. Houston Virgin Islands Association (HVIA) has its own unique structure allowing it to promote Virgin Islands culture and heritage by those living in the Diaspora, thereby creating a pride and joy of Virgin Islands “NICE.”

HVIA holds very simple mandates:

• Enhance the cultural, educational, civic and general well-being of its members;

• Showcase our values, traditions, heritage, and culture as a means of increasing public awareness;

• Educate members and our community about the Virgin Islands: our history, culture and traditions.

• Involve our members in community developments and charitable causes, within the meaning of Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

200 Years in Paradise genealogy blog covers general Virgin Islands records and family history sources, social history, island history, and genealogy techniques and hints. Surnames include van Beverhoudt, Conrad, Magens, De Windt, Pentheny, Colbeth, Moorhead, Robson, Andersen, Scott, Dalton, and related families.

In 2013, we started to build this website to present as much information as possible about texts in and about Virgin Islands Dutch Creole. A lot of sources are already digitally available and by presenting the links to these texts we hope to help you obtaining the information you need to study the language and language related subjects.

The focus of this article, the Danish plantations in the West Indies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, were multicultural colonies inhabited largely by enslaved Africans and slave owners and administrators from Britain, Ireland, and the Netherlands, with small numbers of Danes, French, and North Americans. In this paper we aim to add to historical and anthropological discussions on names and naming practices in the context of Caribbean slavery, through our analysis of historical documents and datasets from the island of St. Croix. Louise Sebro has remarked that close examinations of population databases for the island “will undoubtedly throw light on traditions of name giving” (2010: 198). Our contribution here consists of an analysis of 197 names from a plantation register taken for tax purposes in 1785, as well as the names contained in 1,426 baptismal records pertaining to two churches in St. Croix. One is a Lutheran church (1780–1794) in the capital city of Christiansted (image 1), whose congregation was made up of white, free colored, and enslaved individuals; another is Friedensthal Moravian Church (1744–1832), located on the outskirts of Christiansted, whose congregation consisted primarily of enslaved individuals from nearby sugar plantations as well as free people of color. Our analysis is further illuminated by details from the lives of three former slaves from the Danish West Indies.

Vintage Virgin Islands features over 300 blog posts about the US Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

The Caribbean Mystics Podcast features true supernatural stories that take place in the Caribbean region. Told from first person perspective, these stories reveal the extensive unexplainable phenomenon that occurs in this region of the world. Hosts Paulina and Gabrielle, join together at the end of each story to provide key historical background, cultural context, and meaningful elaboration through their lenses of being ancestral Virgin Islanders and Caribbean Mystics.

Dr. Richardson will take you down Memory Lane and challenge you to dates, places, and people past and present of the Virgin Islands.

From about 1991 on I study the Dutch related Creole language Virgin Islands Dutch Creole. In this podcast I pay attention to texts, linguistic aspects of the language, history of the language, history of the study of the language and field work.

Vanaf ongeveer 1991 bestudeer ik de aan het Nederlands gerelateerde creooltaal Virgin Islands Dutch Creole. In deze podcast besteed ik aandacht aan teksten, taalkundige aspecten, de geschiedenis van de taal, de geschiedenis van de bestudering van deze taal en aan het veldwerk dat gedaan is om deze taal beter te leren kennen.

This group is for sharing resources and assisting with research relating to Caribbean ancestry and history.

Welcome to the Caribbean Research Community! This group was created to give people researching the region a place to ask questions, collaborate, and share research with one another.

A progressive podcast and platform dedicated to the Indo-Caribbean community and other descendants of Indian indentureship from around the world.

Genealogical Translations was established to provide amateur family researchers a place to have their genealogical documents translated. We are a global volunteer group whose members help other members by offering free translation of their genealogical documents such as vital records, postcards, obituaries, and more, in languages including – Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and many others!

VIADG helps Virgin Islanders research and preserve their family histories, stories, traditions, customs and, culture; provides a forum for developing research skills, sharing knowledge of resources available, and involving the Virgin Islands community in the ancestry discovery process.

We are the ones responsible to keep our history and stories from our grandparents, parents or the woman or man down the street. We have lost so much of them. Why not share yours so other can pass it on, our culture our stories, soon it will be gone. We are not shamed of our people, tell the stories that came from the soul if not now, when.