Vincentians of Indian descent now able to trace their roots back to India

Vincentians of Indian descent are now able to trace their genealogy back to India.

During the annual Indian Arrival Day commemoration on Sunday, June 4, president of the Indian Heritage Foundation Junior Bacchus, said their website now includes a section for tracing family lineage.

“After two years of hard work, we have launched on our SVG Heritage Foundation Website a genealogy section of that site. We are inviting all of us to go to that site and put whatever information you know about your family in the relative section within the site and you will be able to find a lot of your family members who have passed on, and you would be able to trace right back into India where you came from,” Bacchus explained.

He said as well that this year the Foundation will be focusing on building greater peace and harmony among people of Indian descent. The Indian Day Arrival ceremony is held annually in recognition

of the day when the first set of East Indians arrived from India to St Vincent on June 1, 1861 to work as indentured labourers on estates. The Foundation also has been documenting stories from senior members of Indian descent in St Vincent and the Grenadines and in the Diaspora as a record for posterity. (API)