Grenada Heritage: Vital Records

HELP TO GET GRENADA BMD INDEXED AND ONLINE Family History and Genealogy Records When will Grenada be able to Discover their family history.   Since 1974, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has been extracting records of births/baptisms and marriages from filmed records...

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Grenada’s Endangered Archives (part 8)

Grenada’s endangered archives programme (EAP295) Update: Grenada National Archives – New access Wonderful news – the link from the British Archive’s Catalogue to our Endangered Digital Collection is now live (as of 01 Aug 2014). So, for example, on this page http://bit.ly/1q8e2tt , click on ‘Browse...

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Grenada’s Endangered Archives (part 7)

Grenada’s endangered archives programme (EAP295) Update: Transcription from Grenada’s Archives Published Dr Laurence Brown (University of Manchester) has published a 73 page transcription of images from “Court of Oyer and Terminer for Trial of Attained Traitors record book 1796” [part of Grenada’s...

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Grenada Heritage At Risk: Carriacou cemetery vanishes

Rising seas swamp a cemetery on Carriacou, Grenada. The Good News One of Grenada’s most important commodity is Tourism.  All our other resources are equally important and of cause should be regarded hand-in-hand with our Tourism Resources.  On the 9-11 of July 2014 the Center for...

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Grenada Heritage: Biographies

Introduction A biography is a history of a person’s life. A biography may give you birth, marriage, and death information and the names of parents, spouse, children, or other family members. Use the information from a biography cautiously because there may be inaccuracies. You may locate individual or...

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Grenada Heritage: Our Plantations – part 3

James Evan Baillie We know little of the man as a person, however, we can see from the records that he was a very astute businessman that would not seem out of place in a modern-day big-city financial sector only to be given accolades for his cleaver choices.  Only in hindsight, giving the context in...

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Grenada Heritage: Our Plantations – part 2

The village of Baillie’s Bacolet, Saint David’s in the south-east of Grenada, more commonly referred to as simply Bacolet is named after the plantation that once stood in the area. We also mention plantations of Hermitage Estate in Saint Patrick’s north of the island, and Mount St. Bernard Estate...

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Grenada Heritage: Judith Philip – Her Legacies

    Judith Philip was born to a French baker turned planter Honore Philip and his ex-slave wife Jeannette sometime in the late 1760s. Upon the death of her father around 1779 she, along with her seven siblings, Honore junior, Michel, Susannah, JB Louis, Joachim, Nicholas Regis and Magdalene inherited...

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Grenada Heritage: Our Artists

A Gallery Called Poui I remember the first time I met Jim. In my purple and green hair days, I was a young dreamer-of-being-an-artist. After working up the gumption, one day I called to ask if I could visit his gallery. A soft voice on the other end of the line, told me to look for the painted wall on...

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Grenada Heritage: May Day – Save Our Archives

Getting Ready for May Day 2014 15 April 2014 · in Continuing Education, Digital Preservation, Disaster Planning, Outreach and Advocacy, Policies and Procedures, Preservation, Society of Archivists. · To download your this logo or similar ones, please visit SAA’s website at http://www2.archivists.org/initiatives/mayday-saving-our-archives/mayday-logos It’s...

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Grenada Heritage: Know Your History (18 March)

This Day in History Posted on 18 Mar 2014 in Today in History On this day, 18 March 1649, French colonists from Martinique landed in the Lagoon, St. George’s and initiated a successful European settlement in Grenada, which subsequently led to the destruction of the indigenous population. This year marks...

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