Kulturudvalget 2009-10
KUU Alm.del Bilag 11
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Vi r g i nIs l a n d sSo c i a lHi s t o r yAs s o c i a t e s'St.Cr o i xAf r i c a nRo o t sPr o j e c tInvites Your AttendanceAtThe Launch Ceremony Of The
ST. CROIX POPULATION DATABASE 1734-1917The most comprehensive collection of records yet digitizedchronicling an African-American populationcreated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
22 October 2009∙13:30Rigsarkivet HarsdorffsalenTøjhusgade 11218 København K***consisting of 1.84 million biographical entries transcribed from a vast array of historical records foundin Danish, American and Virgin Islands archives. A product of a multi-national project involving Danes,Virgin Islanders and Americans, the Database constitutes a powerful research tool that will providescholars, educators, students, genealogists and others with easy access to hitherto inaccessiblehistorical documentation relating to the history of St. Croix and its multi-ethnic, multi-racialpopulation. It will enable Virgin Islanders to investigate, analyze and reconstruct the Past from anindigenous perspective. It will also allow Danes, Virgin Islanders, Americans and Africans toreconstruct life stories and family histories of forgotten ancestors. And, very uniquely, it will permitthousands of families in Denmark and the Americas to trace their ancestral roots to individual Africansand to specific African homelands.
THEST.CROIXPOPULATIONDATABASE
1734-1917is a searchable, virtual archive, currently
