Genealogy in Time Newsletter For the past few weeks I have been getting a wonderful newsletter from Genealogy in Time. It is often the first information I receive about new online resources. http://www.genealogyintime.com/genealogy_news.html Genealogy in Guyana On Thursday, a patron came to the FHC asking for help with his family history in Guyana. Everything I tried over the following two hours was basically fruitless. So yesterday I spent most of the day scouring the internet looking for resources on this small South American nation. These were the best leads I found. The Guyana / British Guiana Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/index.htm Be sure to read: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/Research.htm The Guyana / British Guiana Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/index.htm Guyana/British Guiana Genealogy Society Forum http://guyanagen.proboards.com/index.cgi Guyana Genealogical and Biographical Society http://guygenbiosociety.blogspot.com/This blog contains transcribed newspaper anouncements of birth, marriage, and death, as well as some biographies and photos. Chinese in Guyana: their roots http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guycigtr/ British Guiana Colonists http://www.vc.id.au/tb/ is an index to colonists. Guyana - Family History & Genealogy Message Boards http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.southam.guyana/mb.ashx Guyana Colonial Newspapers http://www.vc.id.au/edg/index.html Guyana Genealogy Queries http://www.cousinconnect.com/p/a/74/ Guyana government addresses http://www.candoo.com/genresources/#GUYANA The National Library of Guyana has newspapers, yearbooks, historical writings and photographs. http://www.natlib.gov.gy/ African-American genealogy and searchable records and a collection of slave data. You can also join discussion forums about tracing family from the Caribbean islands, including Guyana. http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-carib/ Guyana Genealogy message board http://groups.yahoo.com/group/guyanese_genealogy/message/756 The British National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp Georgetown, Guyana News http://www.topix.com/gy/georgetown 1909 Argosy Directory of British Guiana - a list of prominent people. http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=528&p=localities.southam.guyana.general The National Trust of Guyana seems to be concerned with preserving historic buildings rather than family history.http://www.nationaltrust.gov.gy/ The Family History Library Catalog lists a few microfiche that may be helpful. http://familySearch.org Family History Centers in Guyana: Georgetown Guyana Prashad Nagar Georgetown, Guyana Note: These are not mailing addresses. Due to limited staff, Family History Centers are unable to respond to mail inquiries. But if you live in the area, they might be able to help you. Supplemental: An excellent article on the county and its history can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana Parliament of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana http://www.parliament.gov.gy/ University of Guyana (no family history listed) http://uog.edu.gy/search/node Guyana Government Information Agency http://www.gina.gov.gy/ (passports, birth certificates) http://www.gina.gov.gy/govservicesbenefits.html 2002 census of Guyana, but seems to give no access to anything other than basic statistics, and no access to earlier censuses. http://www.statisticsguyana.gov.gy/census.html Guyana News and Information http://www.guyana.org/ Discussion on indentured East Indians in Guyana (projected database of East Indian Indentured Servants) http://www.guyana.org/noncgi/forum/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20020321-1-004321-3.html Forum with family history interests http://www.guyana.org/cgi-bin/Directory/guydir.cgi?act=N I have also created an article for the FamilySearch wiki, http://wiki.familySearch.org containing these links. I see it has not been posted yet. Maybe I did something wrong. Enjoy finding your family!