Category: Unproven Lineages: Barbados Babbs (Barbados 01)
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The Death of Fielding Babb
Fielding Babb is likely the most famous Babb in Barbados. I’ve enjoyed a number of his works of art over the years including the Barbados Village print I recently shared. I had stumbled across an artists site while working to add him to the Master Tree the other day and stumbled across his obituary. So, […]
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The First Babbs of Barbados
I’m getting off the ground in my research of the Babbs of Barbados and am starting at the beginning and working my way through time towards modern day. A Brief history of Barbados Wikipedia says that the first English settlement was established as a proprietary colony and funded by Sir William Courten, a City of London merchant who acquired the […]
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A Huge welcome to our new members!
I want to welcome the almost 200 new members enlisted by one of our current members today. This is the single greatest leap in membership in our organization’s history! I noticed that many are from different parts of the Caribbean, which is a group we have been interested in learning more about since we first […]
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The Village Barbados
The Village Barbados, an ink drawing on paper is a work of Fielding Babb that I found for sale on eBay. It seemed very apt to purchase it as we begin our quest to research the Babb lines of Barbados. What follows below is a short biographical essay on Fielding written by a a great […]
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Calling all Barbados & Caribbean Babbs
I need your help founding the tree for your branch of the family. I’ve located a number of databases that will aid in the research and pulling together a tree of what is known is the first step needed to know who to DNA test and what results to expect. Thanks to Jason, one of […]
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DNA Waiting Game Teaser – Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, Costa Rico Edition
For the newest members of our group welcome! We seek to define the earliest origins of all Babbs and are using DNA testing to help prove what the paper trail has not. The “DNA Waiting Game” is a chance for the world of Babb to collectively hold our breath and await the long process of […]