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*[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/cardcatalog.aspx Ancestry Card Catalogue of all Record Databases] (located as an option under the Search tab). Ancestry is a pay website. Use Search terms such as Caribbean, or individual island names such as Barbados, or Jamaica. Includes databases from the books ''Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857'' by David Dobson 1998 (there was subsequently a Volume 2 published in 2006, which appears '''not''' to be included in the Ancestry database, which is located in "Immigration & Emigration") and ''The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707'' by David Dobson 1999 (located in "Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference"). See [[Scotland]] for some background about the Scottish diaspora.
*[http://www.kabristan.org.uk Kabristan Archives -Ireland -Ceylon -India Genealogy] Includes a Search, with a partial transcription of records. Search for free, then pay for a full record. Includes one database relating to Jamaica “Moravian Graveyards India and Jamaica 1755-1971” located under India & Nepal. Moravian missionaries were the first large-scale Protestant missionary movement.
*Online newspapers are available from free websites, pay websites and through library subscription websites and are mentioned below on this page. There are also many transcriptions from newspapers available.
==Other records==
*[http://www.caribbeanfamilyhistory.org Caribbean Family History]. Barbados. Includes transcribed burial records for Barbados.
*[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Caribbean Caribbean] FamilySearch (LDS) Wiki. Includes links to the pages for Barbados and Jamaica.
:[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Genealogy_Research_Groups FamilySearch Genealogy Research Groups], also called Family Search Community] . FamilySearch Wiki. Includes links to 'closed' Facebook groups (where you must be accepted by an Administrator) for the Caribbean and Jamaica. Note, to sign up to these groups you must be a Facebook member, and then may need to be signed in to FamilySearch, and then may need to agree to conditions set by FamilySearch Community, including access to your data.
:[http://londonfamilyhistory.org/useful-web-links/ Really Useful Weblinks] from London FamilySearch Centre website includes a category Caribbean.
*[https://grannum.wordpress.com/caribbean-family-history/ Caribbean family history: An introduction to tracing your Caribbean ancestors]. ''Caribbean Roots'' website. Includes information about Civil Registration, and addresses of Registry Offices. For example, births were registered from 1890 in Barbados, and 1880 in Jamaica.
:There is a "Resources" chapter in the book ''Empire’s Children: Trace Your Family History Across the World'' by Anton Gill 2007, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013623894 . This book accompanied the television series ''Empire's Children''.
*[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/dloc1?n=dloc dLOC: Digital Library of the Caribbean] includes
**[https://dloc.com/cndl Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library] with a sub collection of [https://dloc.com/gazettes Caribbean Gazettes]. Click on View items to see the range of publications
**[http://dloc.com/mapcar Caribbean Map Collection]
:from [http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu University of Florida Digital Collections]
*[https://newspaperarchive.com NewspaperArchive], a pay website, includes [https://newspaperarchive.com/jm/ Jamaican Newspaper Archives (1834-2020)], including ''The Gleaner'' from 1834, ''The Weekly Gleaner'' from 1885, and ''The Jamaican Guardian'' from 1868, all published in Kingston, and [https://newspaperarchive.com/bs/ Bahamas Newspaper Archives (1849-1961)] consisting of ''The Nassau Guardian ''. Subscriptions from monthly.
:[https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com ''The Jamaica Gleaner''], from 1834, a pay website, provided by NewspaperArchive. One day pass available.
*[https://nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm National Library of Jamaica Digital Collection]. Mostly online photographs, but also contains the Collection "Online Government Documents", see Historical books online, below.
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/carviews/index.html Caribbean Views] British Library Online Gallery.
===Historical books online===
*See [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/dloc1?n=dloc dLOC: Digital Library of the Caribbean] above, with more details.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924021197011 ''Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies from the earliest date''] by J H Lawrence-Archer [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924021197011#page/n449/mode/2up Index]. 1875 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sketchpedigreeso00livi/page/n3 ''Sketch pedigrees of some of the early settlers in Jamaica : compiled from the records of the Court of Chancery of the island with a list of the inhabitants in 1670 and other matter relative to the early history of the same''] by Noel B Livingston 1909. Archive.org
