Online Resources for Guyana

Some online research resources:

The Guyana / British Guiana Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/index.htm
This page discusses special challenges: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/Research.htm

The Guyana / British Guiana Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/index.htm
Guyana/British Guiana Genealogy Society Forum http://guyanagen.proboards.com/index.cgi

Guyana Genealogical and Biographical Society http://guygenbiosociety.blogspot.com/
This blog contains transcribed newspaper anouncements of birth, marriage, and death, and some biographies and photos.

British Guiana Colonists http://www.vc.id.au/tb/ is an index to colonists.

Guyana Colonial Newspapers http://www.vc.id.au/edg/index.html

Guyana - Family History & Genealogy Message Boards http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.southam.guyana/mb.ashx

Guyana Genealogy Queries http://www.cousinconnect.com/p/a/74/

Guyana government addresses http://www.candoo.com/genresources/#GUYANA

Guyana Government Information Agency http://www.gina.gov.gy/
(passports, birth certificates) http://www.gina.gov.gy/govservicesbenefits.html

Afrigeneas African-American genealogy and has searchable records and slave data. There are discussion forums about tracing family from the Caribbean, including Guyana. http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-carib/

The British National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp

1909 Argosy Directory of British Guiana- a list of prominent people.
http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=528&p=localities.southam.guyana.general

Family History Centers in Guyana:
Georgetown Guyana
Prashad Nagar
Georgetown, Guyana
Note: These are not mailing addresses. Due to limited staff, Family History Centers are unable to respond to mail inquiries.
If you live in the area, see if they can help you.

Supplementary:

An excellent article on the county and its history can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana

Parliament of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana http://www.parliament.gov.gy/

University of Guyana (no family history listed) http://uog.edu.gy/search/node

The National Library of Guyana has newspapers, yearbooks, historical writings and photographs. http://www.natlib.gov.gy/

2002 census of Guyana, but seems to give no access to anything other than basic statistics, and no access to earlier censuses. http://www.statisticsguyana.gov.gy/census.html

Guyana News and Information http://www.guyana.org/
Discussion on indentured East Indians in Guyana (projected database of East Indian Indentured Servants)
http://www.guyana.org/noncgi/forum/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20020321-1-004321-3.html
Online forum with family history interests http://www.guyana.org/cgi-bin/Directory/guydir.cgi?act=N

Georgetown, Guyana News http://www.topix.com/gy/georgetown

The National Trust of Guyana seems to be concerned with preserving historic buildings rather than family history.
http://www.nationaltrust.gov.gy/