In late spring/early summer, I got two emails regarding the same thing – a updated new resource that could prove fruitful for my research! Both David Quénéhervé and Mickaël Mange, who have helped in different ways throughout my Afro-French Caribbean research, reached out to me to mention this website. Mickaël mentioned the website was fairly new (at least its design and what it would hold) and that they are still uploading documents to it. He also mentioned that the website would host records known as “hypothèques” (related to the Spanish word hipoteca) which are payments, for mortgage, being made. I looked around the website, tried some simple searches, but did not really get too far. Since it was fairly new and this could be overwhelming when navigating a new developing website, I decided to wait and see what would come of it.
Below you can see some of the inventory that is already making its way online, though this does not necessarily mean that the actually documents themselves are readily available.
Saludos Luis,
He estado buscando por varios años mi apellido y he encontrado mucha info, mi apellido es Labault y buscando en Guadeloupe encontre un primo que vive en Francia que ha encontrado mucha info que me ha compartido;
entre esta que mi apellido era Lavault porque nuestra abuela era esclava de 15 años y estaba embarazada de su dueño de apellido Caillet y uno de esos hijos llego a Rio Grande y de ahi sale mi linea. Hay mucha mas historia, cualquier cosa mi whatsapp es 7874616638
Hola Carlos, wow – gracias por compartir esta historia, ¡qué fascinante! Me alegro que pudiste encontrar familia, en eso estoy ahora – tratando de encontrar familia que se quedó en Guadeloupe o Martinica. Saludos, Luis