The Society
We are a Society reaching genealogical researchers throughout the world who are researching their colonial British Guiana or post-independence Guyana ancestors. For the many Guyanese diaspora and descendants whose searches have met with disappointment, we hope to provide some alternative resources as they as discovered and whenever possible, transcriptions.
When the British left the then Colony named British Guiana, vital records (births, marriages, and deaths) were left in-country. Since independence, Guyana has experienced severe economic depression and civil strife, excluding any interest or ability to preserve or make available the historical and vital records.
Please read through the pages under the label heading "Research" on the above menu, as there are many suggestions of places to search and many suggestions. Recent transcriptions have been added of colonial materials which may help in the search for colonial ancestors. New content is being added as soon as transcription and preparation is completed. Keep checking for our new additions! Any discovered alternative secondary data sources will be posted here. And remember that we always welcome your contributions and suggestions.
ONLINE DATA :Thanks to volunteer transcribers, this site has genealogical data provided free-of-charge. Be sure to check out the Research / Transcriptions page as well as the Vital Records pages.NEW - Transcription from early 1800s Royal Gazette Newspapers; including marriages, deaths, ships, persons leaving Colony. |
NEW FORUM Join us at our new forum - post a query, ask questions, meet your fellow researchers! Visit our NEW online Forum Registration req'd as it keeps the Forum spam-free. You will get activation key via email - enter the key and then choose Keep me Logged in "forever" (For genealogy/family/Guyana history only - please, no political discussions) |
NEW BOOK AVAILABLE - Glimpses of Victorian British Guiana by Inge Veecock Glimpses of Victorian British Guiana is a compilation of cartoons that appeared during the 1890s in the Georgetown newspaper The Argosy. The cartoons satirize the social attitudes prevailing in the colony at the time. This book can be ordered now click HERE. New Low Price on remaining copies! |
NEW! Resource MaterialThe 1880,1898 & 1904 British Guiana Directories - complete transcriptions posted. (Click on "Transcriptions" under the menu header "Research") 1889 Directory Partial transcriptions. Also, new is Emigration to the USA - US ship manifest records, 1853-1938 & Steam Ships & Hotels in Demerara. BMDs (Birth, Marriage & Death) Announcements from the Georgetown newspapers,The Colonist from 1864 to 1880 and The Argosy, from 1880 to 1896 are posted by kind permission of the author/compiler, Inge Veecock and Tim Smellie for his scanning and transcriptions. |
