That is great news . ----- Original Message ----- From: "callaloo" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:26 PM Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > The Mormons are also updating their files so that you will not have to > order > microfilm or microfiche. You will be able to get all the information > online. > They are testing the program now. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:56 AM > Subject: RE: Gittens in Barbados > > >> Cindy,Unfortunately your ggm's birth in 1896 wil not show up in the IGI >> (The International Genealogical Index); in fact I have already checked. >> But >> you can most likely find it on the microfilmed Barbados Records. I don't >> recognise the name Goin, but it might be familiar to others on this List. >> >> I'm not sure where you live, but if you are in any sizable city you >> should >> be able to find an LDS (Mormon) Family History Centre. You don't have to >> be >> a church member to use the centres; there you can order the microfilmed >> Barbados records (they will bring in the film from Salt Lake City) and >> you >> will have to wade through the baptismal/birth records in the hope of >> finding >> Olive's record. They charge a small fee for bringing in the films, but >> you >> can usually ask that they hold them for six months to give you time to do >> the search. >> >> If you are lucky enough to find it, and thus find her parents, you may be >> able to go back another generation, finding the marriage if any. You >> might >> then spot other children with the same parents as you go through the >> film. >> Since you know the year of birth that already helps you narrow the >> search; >> it would be helpful if you knew what Parish she was born in, but I would >> suggest that you start with St. Philip, St. Michael & St. George as being >> parishes where Gittens families tend to be concentrated. If that fails >> you >> can widen the search to other parishes. >> >> I already know of one Gittens family who moved from Barbados to Trinidad >> about the turn of the century, and it would be interestting if Olive >> turned >> out to be a member of that family! >> Good luck. >> >> Ernest M. Wiltshire >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Cindy Loadman >> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:29 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Gittens in Trinidad or elsewhere in the West Indies >> She was born in October 1896 in Barbados. She moved to Trinidad as a >> little >> girl (I don't know what age). She moved to California at some stage in >> her >> later life, and died there in August 1981. >> >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1232 - Release Date: >> 1/18/2008 >> 7:32 PM >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message