Trinidad and Tobago Genealogy

Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago

Guide to Trinidad and Tobago ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Trinidad and Tobago are islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela.

First colonized by the Spanish, the islands came under British control in the early 19th century. The islands' sugar industry was hurt by the emancipation of the slaves in 1834. Manpower was replaced with the importation of contract laborers from India between 1845 and 1917, which boosted sugar production as well as the cocoa industry. The discovery of oil on Trinidad in 1910 added another important export. Independence was attained in 1962. The country is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean thanks largely to petroleum and natural gas production and processing. Tourism, mostly in Tobago, is targeted for expansion and is growing.

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Jurisdictions
Sovereignty.
 * Trinidad Spain 1509, French settlers 1777, Great Britain 1797.
 * Tobago England, Netherlands, and Frace 1632, neutral 1748, Great Britain 1763, France 1781, Great Britain 1793.

Subdivisions. Trinidad and Tobago are divided into 9 regional corporations, 2 city corporations, 3 borough corporations, 1 ward.

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Newspapers
(Ffolliott, Rosemary. Some Connecting Links Between Ireland and the New World From Old Newspapers.  Article covers an alphabetical lists of births, marriages and deaths in the Munster Newspapers, Ireland, covers U.S.A. Canada, West Indies, and England - years 1765-1826.  Article found in The Irish Ancestor, vol. 2. no. 1. 1970 pages 62-69. Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i

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