Journal
My Caribbean Family Stories
A Heritage Journal for Recording the Stories Carried Across the Water
Your family carried more than themselves across the water. Record what else came with them.
For the person from a Caribbean family who wants to record the stories carried across the water before they are lost.
The Name It First Experience
Caribbean families carry a history that is layered, musical, and often only partially told — islands, migration, and the things built and rebuilt across generations. The food that shows up at every gathering. The phrases that travel with the family. The stories about home told with particular longing. This journal records all of it: names, places, stories, history. The output is not a family tree. It is a story archive.
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Sample questions
- What islands, places, and stories does your Caribbean family carry — and what do you know about the life that was built and rebuilt across generations?
- What food, phrases, or traditions travel with your family from their Caribbean home — and what history do they carry alongside them?
- What stories about home are told with a particular kind of longing in your family — and what do those stories say about where your people came from?
Research basis
Grounded in oral history methodology (Ritchie, 2014) / Caribbean diaspora theory (Hall, 1990) / Brah (1996) on diaspora space / Berry (1997) acculturation frameworks / and scholarship on Caribbean migration narratives and creolization.
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