Where the records of Bahamas are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 352,600 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.
Nothing here has been checked for what it costs to look. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Bahamas without a subscription.
1 more institution is listed here and has never been checked — nobody has opened it, written to it, or found out what it holds. They are on the map as grey because that is what they are, and the honest reading of this page is 0 known-open, 1 unknown.
Write to National Archives of the Bahamas for what is not online. FamilySearch has 4 collections covering it, running 1590–1959, 352,600 indexed records. No jurisdiction region covers Bahamas yet, so this atlas cannot say whose archive held this ground in a given year — and it will not guess.
22 places placed, 0 volumes walked. Not one of them has had its paper counted yet, so treat the shelf here as a list of somewhere to look rather than a list of what survives. Open Bahamas on the map, or tell us what is missing.
The archives
- National Archives of the Bahamas unsurveyed Bahamas
National Archives of the Bahamas — national archive of Bahamas. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical.
And 12 worldwide providers reach Bahamas too — the full list.
4 FamilySearch collections
Grouped by the ground each one covers, province by province, with the nationwide indexes last. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.
- Caribbean, Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928 ↗ 1590–1928 44 records
- Caribbean, Deaths and Burials, 1790-1906 ↗ 1790–1906 6,598 records
- Bahamas, Births, 1850-1891 ↗ 1850–1891 52,700 records
- Bahamas, Civil Registration, 1850-1959 ↗ 1850–1959 293,258 records
22 places, 0 volumes
- Acklins 0
- Bimini 0
- Black Point 0
- Cat Island 0
- Central Abaco 0
- Central Eleuthera 0
- Crooked Island and Long Cay 0
- East Grand Bahama 0
- Exuma 0
- Freeport 0
- Inagua 0
- Long Island 0
- Mayaguana 0
- Moore’s Island 0
- New Providence 0
- North Abaco 0
- North Andros 0
- Ragged Island 0
- Rum Cay 0
- San Salvador 0
- Spanish Wells 0
- West Grand Bahama 0