*Begin by speaking to family members. Obviously the older ones have information that may be lost to younger ones. Others may know family links that others don't.
* Find out dates of marriages, births, deaths.
*Find locations where they lived/ migration patterns.
*Get visual descriptions, colouring, visual distinguishing marks.
*Find out family illness. Useful for passing on information to new generations.
*Find out occupations.
*Do a history of what was happening in their area that possibly affected their decisions i.e. lack of work, migration, etc.
*Look up the internet directories in different countries for family names and write to these people once a link has been established from the memories of older ones.

*Record everything no matter how small it could be a thread that someone else knows about.

I was able to locate one of my mother's first cousin's who she had not heard from in over 45 years. He in turn gave me information which lead to other links that reached to many different Caribbean Islands and even Nova Scotia.

*There is also a website that could help.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/p...s/blackhistory.