• Family History Research
• Writing /Publishing

Anya Gass is a Caribbean genealogical researcher and storyteller based in Switzerland, with nine years of archival research experience. She works primarily with families tracing roots across the Caribbean and its diaspora, bringing her background in anthropological to the work — situating ancestors within the historical and social world they actually inhabited, rather than simply locating names and dates in a record.

Her practice, Crossings & Traces, specializes in the Danish West Indies (St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John), the French Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin), the British West Indies (St. Kitts, Anguilla, Barbados, Trinidad, Dominica), the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. She conducts research in English, French, and Spanish, working across colonial archives, church registers, civil registries, plantation records, and emancipation documents.

Anya came to this work through her own family history — a ten-generation project spanning England, Philadelphia, St. Croix, and the Dominican Republic — and brings that personal understanding of Caribbean genealogical research to every client engagement. Her deliverables range from focused research reports to full narrative family histories designed for a general audience.

Crossings & Traces welcomes inquiries from individuals, families, authors and researchers working in the Caribbean genealogical space.

Danish West Indies (St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John), the French Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin), the British West Indies (St. Kitts, Anguilla, Barbados, Trinidad, Dominica), the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century