At the 2017 Transfer Centennial, as a gift to the US Virgin Islands, the Danish Archives (the Rigsarkivet) digitized a significant portion of its Danish West Indies document collection and published it online. Source documents were used to create a Virgin Islands Hisotry website. The complete set of scanned documents may be found at the Danish West Indies collection page
Selected documents from the digitized archives of historic and genealogical interest:
1802 register of free men; 206 names; images 347-358
List of Deaths, 1815-1824; images 1-378
List of Deaths, 1826-1833; images 1-456
List of Deaths, 1838-1866; images 1-561
St. Thomas Police Office: Registers of arriving individuals (1805-1899)
To identify, preserve, and provide access to Caribbean genealogy, history, and cultural heritage information resources for the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean, and to promote and encourage their use for family history documentation, education, and scholarship.
