Dante, What a lovely offer, Thank You in advance. If you come accross Caroline Quetel nee Benjamin and her husband Isidore Quetel, think of me, Ann "Sharing the information." Researching the USVI, St.Eustatius, St. Barths, Barbados > From: dcbmd@clearwire.net > Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 08:23:36 -0600 > To: caribbean@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Carib] VI records on Footnote > > I just wanted to let you know I’ve been looking at records available for the former Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) that are available on Footnote. http://www.footnote.com/ > > Specifically, a group of microfilm records from the U.S. National Archives (NARA) are available at this site: M1883 Selected Records of the Danish West Indies, 1672-1917: Essential Records Concerning Slavery and Emancipation. You can access a pdf with a description of these records at www.footnote.com/pdf/M1883.pdf > > The downsides of these records is the cost (membership for the website) and there is no index for the records dealing with the Danish West Indies. It is a painstaking search through the digitized records and is slower than using microfilm. I’ll post what records I’m going through so listers can put in their requests of names I should look out for. > > Happy New Year to all! > Dante > *************************** > The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CARIBBEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message