Open Call for People from Afrikan Descent from St. Eustatius
Who wants to help index the manumissions of Sint Eustatius of the years 1836 to 1846 and 1861 to 1862?
Manumissions are the acts of freeing persons from slavery. Indexing these manumissions makes it possible to search your ancestors by name in the Whowaswho archive (https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/) and is part of our project “Remember Statia: Tracing Our Origins”.
The Center for Family History in The Hague, the Netherlands, who we invited to give workshops on the island in the first week of April 2024, will assist us during this process.
For more information please contact us:
- Email steustatiusafrikanburialground/at/gmail.com
- Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/steustatiusafrikanburialgroundalliance
- Instagram @steustatiusafrikanburialground
- Whatsapp (+599) 319 4975 or (+31)06-29014308
Requirements
You need a laptop/desktop or tablet and it is necessary that you can read Dutch (even if only a little) and sometimes decipher old handwriting.
This is an example of the manumission act of Camilla Goudsteen and her daughter Ann Rebecca on January 3rd, 1848 by Raapzaat Heyliger Moore, the last owner of the plantation Golden Rock.
