"Granny Came Over After Hurricane Janet" — 10 Surnames The 1955 Storm Blew From Grenada To Trinidad

👉 THE SURNAME PAPERS — trace your family from Trinidad back to the island it left: https://theafricangenome.com 👈 A nutmeg tree takes about seven years to bear. In one night in September 1955, Grenada lost most of them. When Granny says she came over after Hurricane Janet, she is not telling a story. She is giving you a date, maybe the most exact one your family owns. And one question about that storm, asked the right way at your family table, can point to the parish she walked away from. A boatbuilding family from an island smaller than a square mile. A Prussian general's name in a village in St Vincent. And a surname so common that only the storm itself can find it. What did Janet take from your family? Comments: your surname, what the storm took, and the year your family landed in Trinidad. 📖 Help keep these videos coming: https://theafricangenome.com Subscribe to The African Genome. #Trinidad #Grenada #HurricaneJanet #TrinidadAndTobago #Grenadian #Carriacou #PetiteMartinique #StVincent #CaribbeanHistory #Surnames #FamilyHistory #Genealogy