Seeking Information About Olive Bethel
Do you have any information about living relatives of Olive Bethel? Artist Leanne Russell wants to hear from you.
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Genealogy
We Have Names for The Faces in This Historic Abaco Photo
Thanks to Abaco Sun readers, we now know the names of the people in this photo, as well as where and (roughly) when it was taken.
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Is There an Isaac Roberts in Your Bahamian Family Tree?
On April 29, 1923, a Bahamian cook was killed when the Nassau-based vessel on which he worked was shipwrecked. Now, a search is underway to locate relatives of Isaac Roberts.
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The Bahamas Genealogy Group Has Moved
Back in 2017, I first wrote about the Bahamas Genealogy Group, an online group of about 600 members whose purpose is to share and preserve quality Bahamian genealogical and historical information. Recently, Yahoo Groups, where
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Are You a Descendant of the First Families of Abaco?
Forty years ago this week, the inaugural Island Roots Heritage Festival took place in Key West and then in Green Turtle Cay . During the planning for the first Island Roots Festival, Key West historian
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Calling All Abaco Genealogists: My Ongoing Search for Romelda
Some of you regular readers probably know that one of the greatest obstacles I’ve encountered on my genealogical journey is trying to learn more about my great-great-great-grandmother, Romelda. Or it could be Remilda. Or Ramelda.
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The Best Online Genealogy Forum for Bahamians
If your family tree is rooted in Bahamian soil and you’re interested in tracing your ancestry, check out the Bahamas Genealogy Group (BGG). It’s a Yahoo group of 600+ members, all Bahamian or of Bahamian
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What Do You Call Your Great-Grandmother?
In our family, great-grandmothers were called Gan Gan. It’s what all the kids of my generation called our great-grandmother, May Curry, and it’s what all my cousins’ kids called my grandmother, Lurey (Curry) Albury. We
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The Queen and I
In researching a previous blog post about Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Finding Your Roots, I checked on WikiTree to find out whether he and I might be related, since we each have Gates ancestors who
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Daily Photo – June 15, 2016
While researching the book about Green Turtle Cay history on which I’m currently working, I’ve come across many photos with unidentified subjects. Every day this month, I’m running one of these images in hopes that
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