Going back to my roots - Book shows how to build a family tree

Going back to my roots - Book shows how to build a family tree

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080311/ent/ent3.html

The book Researching Your Jamaican Family was released in January by Kingston's Arawak Publications.

Jamaican Armed Forces

Jamaican Armed Forces on Google

http://images.google.com/images?sa=4&imgc=&imgsz=&q=Jamaica+Armed+Forces+source%3Alife


Source: Life Magazine, 1950s.

Halifax Nova Scotia Maroons

In about 1795, about 3 shiploads of Jamaican Maroons were exiled to Halifax, Nova Scotia (NS), in eastern Canada. The British said that these Maroons had broken certain treaties and were being sent to NS. This was possibly the coldest place they could find to punish these upstarts.

These Maroons and their families were put on the ships and sent to Canada permanently, but in a few years, they were again re-shipped to Sierra Leone, a British colony in West Africa.

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