Category: Family History

  • Amna Channie

    My Father -The Village Storyteller

    In the 1940’s in British Guiana, in the village where I was born, there were no radios, no movie theaters, no juke-boxes, TV was unheard of, community libraries were in your dreams. But our home was filled with books stuck in bookshelves, in cupboards, in boxes under the beds. My father was an avid reader […]

  • Amna Channie

    So You Think You Fell From a Coconut Tree?

    The other day, my friend and I had a long insightful gyaff. We touched on many things – health, kids, politics, and one that was of most interest to both of us — our genealogy. I know she had begun work on her family history but had been confronted with many obstacles, not the least […]