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The mission of Caribbean Ancestry is to create a vibrant, successful Genealogical community through mentorship and the sharing of information.

* Create an effective portal that facilitates services related to Caribbean genealogical research
* Encourage and restore professional conduct, ethics and standards in genealogical research
* Encourage self-exploration in order to restore of dignity, self-pride and self-awareness
* Promote the true telling of our Caribbean ancestry; correct misrepresentations in black history
* Generate new interest in Caribbean history, black history and its genealogy
* Encourage travel to the Caribbean islands; contribute to the economic development of the Caribbean

This year (2008) marks the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act,  here's a brief recap of Caribbean history...

The Caribbean also called the West Indies, since Christopher Columbus landed there in 1492 believing he was in the Indies (in Asia). The region takes its name from that of the Carib, an ethnic group present in the Lesser Antilles and parts of adjacent South America at the time of European contact. In the English-speaking Caribbean, someone from the Caribbean is usually referred to as a "West Indian," although the phrase "Caribbean person" is sometimes used.

The British West Indies were united by the United Kingdom into a West Indies Federation between 1958 and 1962. 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 départements of Martinique and Guadeloupe (including Marie-Galante, La Désirade 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-Barthélemy and Guadeloupe (briefly).

The majority of the Caribbean has populations of mainly African ancestry. In the French Caribbean, Anglophone Caribbean and Dutch Caribbean, there are minorities of mixed-race and European people of French, English, Dutch and Portuguese ancestry. Asian, especially those of Chinese and Indian descent, form a significant minority in the region and also contribute to multiracial communities. Many of their ancestors arrived in the 19th century as indentured laborers. The Spanish-speaking Caribbean have primarily mixed majorities, primarily descended from Africans and Spaniards.

From 1500 to 1900, the population in the Caribbean rose owing to the arrival of slaves from West and Central Africa and immigrants from: Britain (Scotland and England), China, France, India, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark. After the ending of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade the population continued to grow via natural increase.

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