Bermuda Archives and Libraries

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Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the Family History Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

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Bermuda Archives
Government Administration Building
30 Parliament Street
Hamilton HM 12
Bermuda
Telephone:(441) 297-7737
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The collections holdings span almost the entire 400 year history of the Island. Its records include:

Legislative Records
Parish Records
Probate Records
Slave Registers
Maps, plans and charts
Paintings and photographs
Journals
The Corporations of Hamilton and St. George’s Records
Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian Church Records

The Caribbean Memory Project
The Caribbean Memory Project
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The Caribbean Memory Project (CMP) is the Caribbean’s first crowd-sourced cultural heritage research platform. It is designed to activate and engage the memory of cultural heritage among a mixed audience and to aid in counteracting the effects of erasure and forgetting occurring in a growing number of contemporary Caribbean communities. The CMP is motivated by enduring questions of citizenship and its related responsibilities—to a family, a community, a country—which are central to the conceptualization and sustainable enactment of Caribbean identity.