The Guyana / British Guiana Genealogical Society
What's New?
Apr 23, 2009: Added a 1902 Local Events for British Guiana transcription which had transcribed in early 2007 but had been overlooked previously when adding pages to the website.
Apr 10, 2009: Changed the Navigation bar item "Vital Records" and incorporated into a new heading of "Transcriptions"; Added a new submitted file regarding the life of C.K. Jardine (Publisher of the Colonist and Chronicle)
Feb 17, 2009: All BMDs from Royal Gazette transcribed and posted; 1781 List of Burghers of St. Eustatius posted on Transcriptions page
Jan 13, 2009: Ongoing updates of batches of transcriptions to Royal Gazette Births, Marriages and Obituaries - broke up the long files into alphabetized shorter lists. Note that further updates to this data will not be noted here. However, a notice will be placed here when the transcription work is completed.
Jan 8, 2009: Added additional Royal Gazette transcriptions to Obituaries and Grooms and Brides lists - from years 1833 to 1835 - Royal Gazette
Jan 4, 2009: Added additional Royal Gazette transcriptions to Obituaries list; Royal Gazette marriages - Grooms and Brides; and Port of Demerary lists - Royal Gazette
Jan 3, 2009: Added 3 names to Royal Gazette Obituaries list; Added to Royal Gazette marriage list, Grooms and Brides for 1816; - Royal Gazette
Jan 1, 2009: New format for this "What's New?" page
Jan 1, 2009: Added more transcriptions to the Royal Gazette's "Transports and Mortgages" (Real Estate) listings for both Plantation sales/purchases and for land sales/purchases/mortgages - Royal Gazette
Dec 27, 2008: Added transcriptions of land sales - both plantations and other real property sales - see Royal Gazette transcriptions page - Royal Gazette
Dec 15, 2008: Added a link on the African page (Land of 6 peoples) to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Nov. 12, 2008: Added marriages for 1815 from Royal Gazette - Royal Gazette
October 31, 2008: Uploaded more content to Royal Gazette transcriptions (Quit Colony, Obituaries, Port of Demerary, Marriage Banns)
October 22, 2008: Added first batch of transcriptions from Royal Gazette newspapers - added to Research/Transcriptions/Royal Gazette - Royal Gazette
August 20, 2008: Posted the "S" Surnames of 1882 BG Directory
August 16, 2008: Posted 1882 BG Directory Surnames "N through R"
July 22, 2008 Posted 1882 surnames E through M
July 21, 2008: Posted remainder of 1889 Directory; Posted "A to D" surnames for 1882 Directory
July 6, 2008: Added Surnames beginning w/ "S" and "T" to 1889 BG Directory (Research>Transcriptions>Directories Main Page)
June 28, 2008: Added info to Land Grants page (Research / Transcriptions /
June 22, 2008: Posted 1889 Directory (N through R Surnames)
May 15, 2008: Posted "C" Surnames from 1889 BG Directory
May 12, 2008: Posted Transcription of 1889 Directory for surnames beginning with "A or B"
May 7, 2008: Posted early London Times transcriptions of Births, Anniversaries, Engagements, Marriages and Deaths
May 5, 2008: Posted transcription of Demerara Railway Co.'s original shareholders on Laws page
May 4, 2008: Transcription of British Guiana Marriage Law enacted 1838 (posted on the Marriage page and the Laws page
Apr. 29, 2008: Transcribed and posted "Records of British Guiana", actually early Dutch colony records from the Timehri of 1888. On the History page
Apr. 26, 2008: Added Death Notices from the London Times by Thomas Kidman - Death Page, under Vital Records.
Mar. 19, 2008: Added new page - SteamShips which lists steam ship lines serving Demerara plus era Hotel advertisements - Images of advertisements from the late 1800s and early 1900s. (Linked from Transcription page)
Mar. 13, 2008: Added more records to the Emigration Data Records (emigration from BG) - Linked from Emigration Data page
Mar. 6, 2008: Added transcription of 1882 listings of British Guiana Clubs and their office holders and when listed, members; PDF file linked from Transcriptions page only
Mar. 5, 2008: Added transcription of 1882, Salaries of Public Officers List (to Transcriptions Page)
Feb 21, 2008: Added H to Z surnames for 1880 BG Directory - access from Transcriptions Page
Feb 19, 2008: Posted new 5 pg chart of Emigrants from Demerara to the US from 1853-1938 (partial) - linked from "Transcriptions" page
Feb 16, 2008: Posted transcription of 1834 appointments for Justices of the Peace (Research > Transcriptions )
Feb 14, 2008: Posted Transcription of 1879 Colonial Office List for BG (link to PDF document on Research > Transcriptions page
5 Feb 2008 - Added links to a new online Forum hosted by ProBoard
Feb 3, 2008: Posted BMDs from The Colonist, 1864-1880 by Inge Veecock (by permission) along with index
Jan 30, 2008: Posted "BMDs of The Argosy, 1880-1896" and index, by Inge Veecock (with permission); also, added Info page on the new book "Glimpses....." by Inge Veecock w/ordering info
Jan 20, 2008: 1880 BG Directory (PARTIAL) added (A to C)
Jan 15, 2008: 1898 BG Directory Transcription completed and posted
Dec 26, 2007: List of marriages (PDF); linked from Marriage page
Dec 14, 2007: Added links to Transcription of 1860 Plantations; 1) sorted by Pln Name; 2) sorted by area of BG - to Transcription page. Added List of Births to Birth Page
Dec 13, 2007: Moved BG Directory Transcriptions to new page and added a directory for 1860; Added a listing of 1860 School Teachers and Non-Sugar Estate owners (changes to Transcription page)
Dec 8, 2007: Added transcription for 1898 BG Directory - Pages for surnames beg. with D., E, F, and G
Dec 1, 2007: Transcription of Land Grants by Dutch in Colony of Essequibo 1720 to 1772
Oct 21, 2007: Added new transcriptions to Transcription page - Licences of Occupancy for Essequibo County only
Oct 21, 2007: Added new transcriptions to Transcription page - 1883 land grants and 1857 Woodcutting licenses
Aug 29, 2007: Added Historical Government Officials linked from History page with links to 3 PDF transcription pages
Aug 18, 2007: Added PDF file: Listing of 1881 Local Events in British Guiana (transcription)
Aug 17, 2007: Added PDF file: Listing of 1860 Sugar Estates at all BG Locations (transcription)
Feb. 16, 2007: Added "Transcriptions" page from "Research heading" and linked to that, an 1879 Event list transcribed
February 9, 2007: Added "Tim's Gallery" with almost 300 photos, both historical & current and all fantastically interesting.
Oct 25 , 2006 - Added Earliest dates of records at Churches and address for St. Andrews Presbyterian Church on Sources page
Oct 6 , 2006 - Added death notices to death page (Vital records section); Added link to Amerindian page
1 to 15 Oct 2006 - Added three galleries of photos to "Photo Gallery" page - Cemetery, Churches & Georgetown galleries
Sept
28, 2006 - Added "Cemeteries" page, linked from Vital Records main page
Sept 22, 2006 - Added "News in History" page, linked from History page - contains transcriptions of interesting aricles re British Guiana from US newspapers
Apr 5 , 2006: Added "Berbice Slave Records" to Library page
Feb 16, 2006: Links to historical sites added to History Page- "Other
History Sites"
Nov 25, 2005: Added more content to the Marriages, Obituaries, Births and Deaths pages
Nov
, 2005: Added Vital Records Main page with sub-pages for Births, Marriages, and Death Record transcriptions with transcriptions added
Nov 19, 2005: Added "Newsletters" to the top menu item named "About Us " to make finding the newsletters easier
Sept 1, 2005 -
Lands of Six People's Chinese page completed
July 6, 2005: Added map of Catholic diocese of Guyana, portion of map by Catholic Church.
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