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==How to Find Records== | ==How to Find Records== | ||
===Online Records=== | ===Online Records=== | ||
*'''1817-1834''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1129/ Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1822-1834 (1817-1834 for Bahamas)] | *'''1817-1834''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1129/ Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1822-1834 (1817-1834 for Bahamas)] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1878-1960''' [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1518/ UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960] | *'''1878-1960''' [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1518/ UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel+%26+migration&sid=101&destinationcountry=bahamas Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at | *'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel+%26+migration&sid=101&destinationcountry=bahamas Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1892-1924''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.anyPlace=bahamas&f.collectionId=1368704&count=20&offset=0&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924] Search results for Bahamas | |||
*[https://www.shipindex.org/ ShipIndex Vessel Research Database] at shipindex.org - index | |||
*[[United States Emigration and Immigration]] | |||
*[[Florida Emigration and Immigration]] | |||
====British Overseas Subjects==== | |||
*[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=british+civil+service+evidence+of+age&sid=103&county=bahamas British Civil Service Evidence Of Age, Bahamas], index ($) | *[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=british+civil+service+evidence+of+age&sid=103&county=bahamas British Civil Service Evidence Of Age, Bahamas], index ($) | ||
*[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=british+armed+forces+and+overseas+births+and+baptisms&sid=103&country=bahamas British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Bahamas], index | *[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=british+armed+forces+and+overseas+births+and+baptisms&sid=103&country=bahamas British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Bahamas], index & images ($) | ||
*[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=british+armed+forces+and+overseas+banns+and+marriages&sid=103&country=bahamas British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Bahamas], index | *[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=british+armed+forces+and+overseas+banns+and+marriages&sid=103&country=bahamas British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Bahamas], index & images ($) | ||
*[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=british+armed+forces+and+overseas+deaths+and+burials&sid=103&country=bahamas British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, Bahamas], index | *[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=british+armed+forces+and+overseas+deaths+and+burials&sid=103&country=bahamas British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, Bahamas], index & images ($) | ||
===National Archives=== | ===National Archives=== | ||
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*Today '''Afro-Bahamians''' make up 90% of the population of 332,634. | *Today '''Afro-Bahamians''' make up 90% of the population of 332,634. | ||
*From 1940-1966, contract agricultural laborers recruited to work in Florida and the adjacent states.<ref>"The Bahamas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas, accessed 14 July 2021.</ref> | *From 1940-1966, contract agricultural laborers recruited to work in Florida and the adjacent states.<ref>"The Bahamas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas, accessed 14 July 2021.</ref> | ||
==Emigrations From the Bahamas== | |||
*There are an estimated 56,498 people of Bahamian ancestry living in the US as of 2015. | |||
*Bahamians began visiting the Florida Keys in the 18th century to salvage wrecked ships, fish, catch turtles and log tropical hardwood trees. After 1825, '''Bahamian wreckers''' began moving to Key West in large numbers. | |||
*Bahamians were among the first West Indians to immigrate to the mainland US in the late nineteenth century. Many went to Florida to work in agriculture or to Key West to labor in fishing, sponging, and turtling. Two main factors that contributed to increased Bahamian migration were the poor economic climate and opportunities in the Bahamas, as well as the short distance from the Bahamas to Miami. | |||
*Southern Florida developed Bahamian enclaves in certain cities including '''Lemon City, Coconut Grove, and Cutler'''. | |||
*Between 1900 and 1920, between ten and twelve thousand Bahamians moved to Florida, mostly to do agricultural labor, often on a '''seasonal basis'''. *Starting in 1943, Bahamanian workers came to Florida under the '''British West Indian (BWI) Temporary Labor Program'''. | |||
*The majority of Bahamian Americans, about 21,000 in total, live in and around '''Miami''', with the Bahamian community centered in the '''Coconut Grove''' neighborhood in Miami. There is also a growing Bahamian American population in the '''Atlanta and Oklahoma City''' areas. | |||
*A large population can be found in the '''New York City''' area, with the population particularly centered in '''Harlem'''. <ref>"Bahamian Amereicans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamian_Americans, accessed 14 July 2021.</ref> | |||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/30139824 The American Loyalists in the Bahama Islands: Who They Were] | *[https://www.jstor.org/stable/30139824 The American Loyalists in the Bahama Islands: Who They Were] | ||
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