Project Goals
PROJECT IS OPEN FOR ANYONE IN EUROPE , AFRICA & AUSTRALIA THAT MATCHES ANYONE IS THE CARIBBEAN.
My goal is to find out the ancestry of many of the Europeans who immigrated and settled or conquered most of the Caribbean Islands. Also the Native population and the African population in result of the slave trade. Especiallly the Irish population who many have been forgotten by the latter immigrations and the current Irish population in Ireland and the World. I am interested in finding the ancestry of the surnames associated with these countries who immigrated to many of the island of the Caribbean and the Caribbean coastal countries. Possibly one day finding a link between varoius different families in the Caribbean. Also to find the O'Neill's and Irish soldiers descendants who fought in the Caribbean and latter settled in various of the Islands.
Current Haplogroups in project are the Haplogroups: E1b1a, J1, J2, R1b1b2, R1b1b2a1a, I1a, R1b1b2a1b4, G2a3b, E1b1b1a2 , E1b1a7a,R1a1, R1b1b2a1b5, R1b1b2a1b3
1. Spanish
2. French
3. Corsican
4. Dutch
5. Dane
6. Norman ( Scandinavian , Roman - Gallo)
7. German
8. African
9. Irish (Gaelic)
10. Scottish and Scot-Irish
11. Native American
12. Asian ( Chinese, Indian )
Haplogroup R1b1b2a1b5 seems to be a strong Haplogroup among the male population in the Caribbean Islands.
Islands that at one point were and some are still colonies of European nations.
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, Sint 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, Trinidad and Bay Islands.
Swedish West Indies : French Saint-Barthélemy and Guadeloupe .
Continental countries with a vast Caribbean coastline and various island with a rich history of piracy and European conquests
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 ,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, Sint 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, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, located southeast of the Virgin Islands.
I welcome any participant in the United States, Europe, Asia , Australia and Africa who believes to have descendants or ancestors in the Caribbean to join.