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*'''Update''' At 22 April 2021 the following link was not accessible. The information has been retained in case the problem is only temporary.
:[https://nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm/items/browse?collection=15&page=1&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle Collection: Jamaica Government Documents] from National Library of Jamaica Digital Collection. Read online or download. Includes
:*''Almanack and Register for the Island of Jamaica'' (or similar title) for 1779, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785.
:* ''Blue Book. Island of Jamaica'' for years 1852, 1853, 1866 to 1906-1907 (broken range). "Contains statistical information about the island of Jamaica". As an example of the contents,
:**for the year [https://nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm/items/show/3555 1906-1907], the Contents page is digital page 2. Each section is allocated a letter, and is separately numbered. The Civil Establishment (civil service employees) is section N and commences digital page 135 - note many of the following pages needed to be read two pages side by side (but it does not seem possible to select a two page option). Information includes employment title, date appointed and salary. There is also a following section "Officers who have given Security", section O digital page 201, and Pensions, section P digital page 232 (again, most/all pages for these two sections need to be read side by side). Total digital pages 582.
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*[https://archive.org/details/genealogiesofbar00bran ''Genealogies of Barbados families : from Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society''] by James C Brandow. 1983. Archive.org Lending Library
*[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00001365/00001 ''The Jews of Jamaica: Tombstone Inscriptions, 1663-1880''] Richard D. Barnett and Philip Wright c 1997. Digital Library of the Caribbean.
*[https://archive.org/details/medicalregisterf1783lond/page/168/mode/2up "West Indies"] pages 169-172 ''The Medical Register for the year 1783''. Archive.org.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100043612900.0x000001 ''The New Jamaica Almanack, and Register... for 1791''] British Library Digital.:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sud-hLkK2eQC&pg=PP7 ''1801'' ] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/newjamaicaalmana00king/page/n7/mode/2up ''The New Jamaica Almanack, and Register…for the year of our Lord 1801, 2nd edition''] including [https://archive.org/details/newjamaicaalmana00king/page/96/mode/2up "Jamaica"] page 96 and [https://archive.org/details/newjamaicaalmana00king/page/106/mode/2up "Jamaica Lists"] page 106 Archive.org.*:[https://archive.org/details/b28751590 ''The New Jamaica Almanac, and Register for 1802''] Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_royal-register-jamaica_octavo-6805-17591 ''The Royal Register and Jamaica Almanac, for the year 1810''] including [https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_royal-register-jamaica_octavo-6805-17591/page/n149/mode/2up "Jamaica"] page 134 and [https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_royal-register-jamaica_octavo-6805-17591/page/n153/mode/2up "Jamaica Lists"] page 136. Archive.org: Other sources: 1791, 1795 and 1798 editions are available on the library subscription website "Eighteenth century collections online". 1825 edition is believed to be on the Gale library subscription database "The Making of the Modern World". See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]]. :''Douglass & Aikman's Almanack and Register for the Island of Jamaica'' is available at the British Library for 1791 and 1793 UIN: BLL01001149175 and UIN: BLL01001149176 . [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph013355757 Oxford University catalogue entry] for 1785, 1789, 1792, 1794, 1796 and 1820, 1832, 1839, 1840, 1842.*[https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00000050/00001 ''The Trinidad almanac and public register, for the year of our Lord, 1827''], [https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00000050/00001/9j Index]. Digital Library of the Caribbean.
*[https://cdm16964.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/dc Collection: Government Publications from National Library of Jamaica] on oclc.org Consists of 4 editions of ''Blue Book'', ''Jamaica'' for 1852, 1853, 1866, 1867.
:''Blue Book. Island of Jamaica'' for [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KRNOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 1870], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cAFOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 1871], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9RJOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 1873]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XxNOAAAAYAAJ 1907], the latter limited areas only such as North America. All Google Books.
:Based on 1873 as an example: Each section is allocated a letter, and is '''separately numbered'''. For many sections, the two pages side by side viewing option needs to be selected. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9RJOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 Contents]; Section L commences with [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9RJOAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA5-PA5#v=twopage "Index to the Civil Establishment"] followed by [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9RJOAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA6-PA1#v=twopage "Civil Establishment"]. Followed by [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9RJOAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA7-PA1#v=twopage "Section M Return of Officers who have given security for the due discharge of their duties"]. Followed by [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9RJOAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA8-PA1#v=twopage "Section N Pensions"]
*''The Colonial Office List for ...'' Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1862: First publication]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1867], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878]; [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Phg5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1880, Google Books], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b587083?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1880, HT] with rotatable pages; [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoog/page/n14 1881]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89090339342?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 1889]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003/page/23 1903]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 1904]; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1925 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992447 B]
