SELECTED GENEALOGY WEBSITES

www.caribbeanfamilyhistory.org
A free non-subscription-based website that contains burial records mainly from Westbury Cemetery, a list of ministers and the period that they served, a listing of Quakers and notes about some Quakers. At the bottom of the home page in the section entitled “Recent Activity” are links to other websites, most notably a link to a website pertaining to the surname Gittens. 

www.findagrave.com
A free subscription-based website that provides burial information. Persons can freely upload images and information on deceased relatives.

www.archive.org/
A freely accessible non-subscription-based website that contains a digitized version of a book entitled “Monumental Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyards of the Island of Barbados, British West Indies”. Information was gathered from 1913 to 1914 and the book was published in 1915. It contains transcriptions of tombstones and wall plaques located in several places around the island.
Pg. 14 – Beginning of transcriptions. Sorted according to parishes then church and plantation.
Pg.208 – Index begins

www.monumentalarchiveproject.com
A freely accessible non-subscription-based website that contains burial records. It contains pictures of various wall plaques and tombstones, transcriptions of these tombstones and wall plaques, as well as maps showing the layout of the various churches and their monuments.

www.dloc.com 
Free non-subscription-based website. In the box next to “Search Collection” type “Barbados Archives Department”. Scroll down to collections numbered 12 and 13 which are entitled “Inventories of Property and Personal Effects, 1764 – 1888, and Proved Wills Index, 1860 – 1959. These are just indexes. If you want to access the records you need to visit the Barbados Archives Department. 
These are useful if persons are unsure about the year of death of an ancestor. 

https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/ 
A free subscription-based website that contains about 65 million arrival records of people going to America through the Port of New York from 1820 to 1957.

Other websites that provide useful Barbadian historical information:
www.creolelinks.com
www.barbadosgen.wordpress.com