My goal is to find out the ancestry of many of the Europeans that immigrated and settled or conquered most of the Caribbean Islands.

I am interested in finding the ancestry of the surnames associated with the countries who immigrated to many of the island of the Caribbean and the Caribbean coastal countries.

British West Indies: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas,Barbados, Belize, Bay Islands, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica,Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Croix (Santa Cruz), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Danish West Indies: United States Virgin Islands.

Dutch West Indies: Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, Virgin Islands, Saint Croix, Tobago and Bay Islands.

French West Indies: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Eustatius, St Kitts, Tobago, Saint Croix, Martinique and Guadeloupe,Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin.

Portuguese West Indies: Barbados

Spanish West Indies: Cuba, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and Trinidad and Bay Islands

Swedish West Indies:  French Saint-Barthelemy and Guadeloupe

1. Belize

2. Colombia

3. Costa Rica

4. French Guiana

5. Guatemala

6. Guyana

7. Honduras

8. Mexico

9. Nicaragua

10. Panama

11. Venezuela

The Windward Islands are the southern islands of the Lesser Antilles.

Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Grenadines, Grenada,and Dominica

The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain of islands, part of the West Indies. They are situated where the Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean.

U.S. Virgin Islands: St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix

British Virgin Islands: Tortola, Virgin, Gorda, Anegada,Jost Van Dyke,Anguilla, Saint Martin/Sint Maarten,Saint-Barthélemy, Saba,Saint Eustatius,Saint Kitts ,Nevis ,Barbuda ,Antigua ,Redonda,Montserrat,Guadeloupe,La Désirade , Les Saintes,Marie-Galante

The Antilles refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea.

Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico

Dutch West Indies is part of the Lesser Antilles and consists of islands in the Caribbean Sea. Curaçao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, Saint Eustatius, Saba and Saint Maarten, located southeast ofthe Virgin Islands.

I welcome any participant in the United States, Europe, Asia,Australia and Africa, which believes to have descendants or ancestors in the Caribbean to join.