BarbadosEdit This Page From FamilySearch Wiki Getting started
with Barbados research Many North Americans have early family
connections to the Island of Barbados. Described as England's
richest colony in the 1680s, a great deal of trade existed
between Barbados (part of the Triangular Trade), the British
Isles, Africa, and ports on the mainland in the New England,
Chesapeake, and Carolina colonies. Many indentured servants from
the British Isles served labor terms in Barbados in the 1600s,
and upon receiving their freedom, could find no available land
on the small island. Most set sail for Jamaica and the mainland
English colonies. Since the 1960s, Barbados has been an
independent island nation in the Lesser Antilles, West Indies,
east of the central Windward Islands, northeast of Venezuela
between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean. Before that
time, it had been part of the British Commonwealth. Helpful
guidebooks about researching Barbados ancestors in records on
the island, as well as in English ar