Genealogy Resources
World Genealogy
The Bahamas
- Bethell, A. Talbot. The Early Settlers of the Bahamas And
Colonists of North America. Clearfield Co, 2005.
Persons searching for Bahamian ancestors will want to study the
various lists of names that appear in this book, including the
census of inhabitants for New Providence in 1671, a
mid-17th-century list of the first settlers of Eleuthra, a list
of some 800 Loyalists who fled to the Bahamas from East Florida
in 1784, a 1791 census of lot owners on Harbour Island, and
various lists of Bahamian officials. The book also includes
biographical sketches of descent for more than 200 contemporary
Bahamians of distinction.