§ Etat des propriétés rurales Français à Cuba (1843), compiled by Emmanuel de la Burgade, from the Archives Consulaires in Paris, France. (Opens with MS Word. View document using the View-Zoom function, setting the percentage that best suits your computer. Use page up & down to view all 14 pages. Use Control-F to search for names or key words. Thanks to M. de la Burgade for creating the spreadsheet, and to Maggee Smith for obtaining his permission to use it.)
§ Transcription of gravestones for Saint Domingue Natives at St. Mary of the Annunciation's Churchyard Cemetery, 89 Hasell Street, Charleston, SC. Established 1789. (transcribed by Maggee Smith)
§ The Babb Index, compiled
by S*I*G* members from the unpublished 1954 dissertation of Winston
J. Babb, entitled French Refugees From Saint-Domingue to the
Southern United States, 1791-1810. Thanks to the efforts of
Francis J. Blanchard, Phil Greene, Lois Fleming Hand, George C.
Jackson, Paulette Mauterer, Earl Rousseau, and Avis Rupert this
valuable work is now more accessible to researchers. For more
about Babb's dissertation, see the History
and Genealogy link.
§ Excerpts of
articles from Charleston, S.C. newspapers containing the names
of Saint-Domingue Refugees (1796-1818). These excerpts were taken from the Charleston
Courier, the Charleston City Gazette, and the Charleston Times
by Nicholas Butler, Project Archivist, South Carolina Historical
Society when he was researching benefits held in aid of the Saint-Domingue
refugees. Also included are a few miscellaneous public notices
(marriages, formation of business partnerships, liquor license
applications, etc.) Comments in brackets [] are those of Mr. Butler.
§ List of French
Who Took the Oath of Allegiance in Santiago de Cuba, 31 August
1808. This list of
112 Frenchmen was found in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba
(originals housed at the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain),
Legajo 226 (xx), folios 965-970. For background information, see
the article
which accompanied the list in the October 2001 issue of The
Saint-Domingue Newsletter.
BECOME
A PART of the SURNAME LIST PROJECT! The number of lists of
Saint-Domingue refugees posted to this website continues to grow,
and I hope to add more so that researchers all over the world
can do all their Saint-Domingue look-ups in one convenient place.
You can help make by adding your surname lists to this link. You
will be given credit, and will retain ownership of any data that
appears here. Contact me for more details if you're interested.
The NUCMC Project
The format of this project does not lend itself to being put online, but click here to find out how the S*I*G* conducted a search through this valuable research tool. Then modify it to fit your own research needs.
But first, a word about the NUCMC?
• The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
is a multi-volume listing of manuscript holdings in repositories
all over the United States. These catalogs, compiled by the Library of Congress, include only
documents and other material that are not still in the
possession of the institution or person that created them. Two
examples are diaries and letters that are no longer in the possession
of the writer or his/her family, or the business papers of a defunct
company that were donated to a historical society. Records such
as military or courthouse documents that have become separated
from their original sources might also be found listed in the
NUCMCs. Questionnaires are sent out to selected institutions around
the country regarding their holdings and the catalogs are compiled
based on this information.
• The NUCMC was first published in 1959. Initially cumulative
indices were published every four or five years, but recently
they have been issued along with each catalog (now published approximately
every other year). There is also a bonus: a 2-volume biographical
index. The set can be found in the reference section of University
and major research libraries.
The Kingston, Jamaica Catholic Church Registers project.
Thanks to the co-operation of Fr. Gérard L. McLaughlin, S.J., archivist of the Archdiocesan archives of the Roman Catholic Church of Kingston, Jamaica, several early registers of Kingston have been microfilmed and are available for research at the New Orleans area facilities. Thanks also to Colin Hamer and his staff, at the New Orleans Public Library, and to the S*I*G* member whose generous underwriting of this project made it all possible.
The Kingston registers that
are now on microfilm and available for research are:
• Baptisms 1817-1826
• Marriages 1800?-1819
• Baptisms (of slaves and free people of color) 1804-1834
(1834 is the year slavery was abolished in Jamaica)
(Contains the names of the godparents and the names of the owners
of the slave being baptized).
• Copies of selected Baptisms 1798-1802-1803-1804, one Marriage
1803, selected Burials 1803.
(22 hand-calligraphed, 11x 17 pages, now loose and laminated,
formerly bound - probably from the early 20th century.) Available
in March 2000.
• More registers to be added in late 2001.
These registers span the time period when many Saint-Domingue
refugees and their families lived in Jamaica. Although a number
of them were deported to New Orleans by the Governor-General in
1803, many stayed on, as is evidenced by the records. Other registers
will be added to this collection in the future.
Copies of this microfilm can be found at New Orleans
Public Library, Louisiana Division, Loyola Ave. office, New Orleans;
Jefferson Parish Eastbank Regional Library, West Napoleon Ave,
Metairie, LA; and The Historic New Orleans Collection - Williams
Research Center on Chartres Street, New Orleans.
