Goal 1: Learn about Haiti research and records.
Choices
ALearn how to find records for ancestors from Haiti.
- Overview: Read this article for an introduction to research in the Haiti.
FS Wiki—Haiti Genealogy - Learn about Haiti history, geography, and culture on Wikipedia.
Haiti - Wikipedia - Watch this video for an introduction to genealogy in Haiti.
RT— Genealogy in a Spanish Sea, the Caribbean: Haiti—15:50 - 2022 - Read this article to learn about doing research in Haitian archives.
Guia Genealogica, Haiti Archives
Record Search Practice |
Waniste Beauvais is mentioned in a Haiti civil registration record. Use the "Haiti, Civil Registration, 1794-2018" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- What is Waniste Beauvais's gender?
- What is the birth year?
- What is the mother's first name?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Waniste" as the first name and "Beauvais" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click the icon for Waniste Beauvais.
- Read the information in the center column.
- Waniste is female.
- She was born in 1966.
- Her mother's first name is Octavie. (Contributed by Brent Bunker )
QUIKLinks
BExplore Haiti resources.
- Explore resources on the Haiti Genealogy site.
- Explore cemetery records on BillionGraves.
- Explore cemetery records on the
Find A Grave site. - Explore records on the Forebears.io site
- Explore historical maps of Haiti on the David Rumsey Maps site.
- Explore the Atlas of Haiti on the Wikipedia site.
- Explore the Old Maps of Haiti on the Wikipedia site.
- Explore the Online Newspapers site for Haiti newspapers
- Explore Geneanet Search to find records from Haiti.
- Join the Haitian Genealogy Facebook group.
- Join the Haiti DNA Registry Facebook group.