CHINESE CARIBBEAN GENEALOGY

Fold3® features premier collections of original military records. These records include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military. Many of the records come from the U.S. National archives, The National Archives of the U.K. and other international records.

The Chinese Immigrants in Cuba collection includes hundreds of original documents, manuscripts and photos covering the migration of 125,000 Chinese who signed up to be cheap labor in Cuba from 1847 until the later 1890s. The archive continues until the 1970s and records the Chinese community in Cuba and is rich with photos. This massive collection, from the archive of James and Ana Melikian Collection, is probably the largest one in private hands concerning Chinese in Cuba. At present, the physical collection contains over 1,341 records and about 8,000-9,000 pages.

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.

To access the online database you need to have a Google Drive account - it is free and you do not need a Gmail email address – you can register with your existing one. After you have set up one and logged in, please click the link below to get the detailed setup instructions and start the process. We will authorize your account and email the links back to you promptly.

BillionGraves is the world's largest resource for searchable GPS cemetery data, and is growing bigger and better every day. You can help by collecting headstone images from local and other cemeteries, and then by transcribing the personal information found on the images.

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.

Havana’s Chinese cemetery Barrio Chino opened in the late 1800s and is the oldest cemetery in the Americas. There was once a flourishing Chinese community in Cuba but now there are very few and they are almost forgotten. The Chinese culture has been in deterioration for around 50 years, since the Chinese Cubans started leaving after the Cuban Revolution. 

A place where persons of Chinese descent meet, interact, have fun and engage in a wide assortment of Chinese Cultural activities at the same time promoting our Chinese Pride and Customs.

Chin Tung-Kao, in 1891 founded the Chinese Benevolent Society, at 113 Barry Street in downtown Kingston.

A main focus of the Caribbean Chinese Association throughout its existence of over 25 years is to ensure its contribution to the community. The Association's involvement in fund raising efforts to meet the needs of its immediate community and those beyond marks the CCA's commitment to this purpose. Whether large or small, the CCA has never said "no" to the challenge, of contributing to disaster relief, promoting better health, and improving the quality of community life.

The main concept of From Beijing to Bridgetown is to focus on the relationship between Barbados and China through community stories. While there are many secondary themes within the exhibition, the main highlight is focused on the background of looking at the workplace and the home, as these would be seen as the main areas of interaction between both communities. The intention is to recreate a space that can uniquely feel Chinese Caribbean then utilizing different symbols and items that would have represented home and work life for the Chinese communities in Barbados.

Have you searched for your Caribbean Chinese Diaspora ancestors?

I did. I consulted the UK-National Archives. It was part of my research efforts to find Trinidad and Guyana immigrants with Chinese heritage for my film “From Shanghai to Harlem.”

The UK-National Archives offered some very helpful advice about Caribbean-Chinese diaspora genealogy search. 

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I have just completed a web documentary called Chinese in Cuba. Here I am placing documentary video clips that will be used on the website. The documentary was inspired by the collection of James and Ana Melikian, they hold original papers, files, books, art, and photographs documenting the Chinese in Cuba. Arizona State University has also digitized the collection and holds it in their archives. The images you see here in the header come form the collection. Please view the web documentary at http://www.chineseincuba.com/.

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Paula Madison addresses the crowd at RootsTech 2016 and shares her genealogy journey. Her plan to research her grandfather Samuel Lowe took her across the world from Harlem to Jamaica to China.