Jamaica was English/British, and there were settlers from the Carolinas that did settle there, but that was many years later. Maybe the singing is unique to this family. I do know that with the VI, we did not discuss our 'business', which is why I got into genealogy, I knew my immediate family, but that's it. I did recently discover that the Carolina area did export Native Americans to the Caribbean, at the time it was part of the Spanish territory, they would re-classify them as black/negro and send them to the islands. So many tthe the Nation promised war against the colonies. Ann "Sharing the information." Researching the USVI, St.Eustatius, St. Barths, Barbados > From: lwa101@comcast.net > To: caribbean@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:32:14 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Carib] Fw: Oral History & Caribbean Geneologies? > > I, too, am very slim on the history of slavery. (I did recently read > with angst the slave ads run in the Savannah Morning News in 1852.) > That said, I do know that the aborigines of Australia have "song > lines" that are actually geographic directions to travel to certain > distant places. I've always just assumed songs are the perfect way for > peoples to relate important knowledge. Poetry, after all, predates > prose in nearly all cultures. I would love to hear one of these > genealogy songs. > > Cheers, happy hunting, > Laura > > > > On Oct 4, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Dorothy Kew wrote: > > > I'm not an historian, but I have to agree with Ernest. I've been > > researching Jamaican ancestry for twenty years and have never come > > across > > any such thing as a "sung genealogy". > >> > *************************** > 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