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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:12:52 GMT

Virgin Islands Daily News

Genealogy library offers a window into the past
Virgin Islands Daily News
The Caribbean Genealogy Library, founded in 2000, holds a treasure trove of historical documents to help Virgin Islanders trace their family trees. Loaded with resources and knowledgeable volunteers passionate about research, the tiny nonprofit library ...

All islands at some point were, and a few still are, colonies of European nations, a few are overseas or dependent territories:
  • British West Indies/Anglophone Caribbean Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bay Islands, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Croix (briefly( ,Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago (from 1797( and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
  • Danish West Indies present-day United States Virgin Islands
  • Dutch West Indies present-day Netherlands Antilles and Aruba,, Virgin Islands, Saint Croix (briefly(, Tobago and Bay Islands (briefly(
  • French West Indies Anguilla (briefly(, Antigua and Barbuda (briefly(, Dominica, Dominican Republic (briefly(, Grenada, Haiti, Montserrat (briefly(, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Eustatius (briefly(, St Kitts (briefly(, Tobago (briefly(, Saint Croix, the current French overseas departements of Martinique and Guadeloupe (including Marie-Galante, La Desirade and Les Saintes(, and the current French overseas collectivities of Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin.
  • Portuguese West Indies present-day Barbados, known as Los Barbados in the 1500s when the Portuguese claimed the island en route to Brazil. The Portuguese left Barbados abandoned in 1533, nearly a century prior to the British arrival to the island.
  • Spanish West Indies Cuba, Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic, and until 1609, Haiti(, Puerto Rico, Jamaica (until 1655(, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad (until 1797( and Bay Islands (until 1643(
  • Swedish West Indies present-day French Saint-Barthelemy and Guadeloupe (briefly(
  • Courlander West Indies – Tobago (until 1691(

The British West Indies were united by the United Kingdom into a West Indies Federation between 1958 and 1962.

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