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*[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records Findmypast: Search A-Z of record sets] (located  as an option under the Search tab). [[Findmypast]] is a pay website. Use Search terms such as Caribbean, or individual island names such as Barbados, or Jamaica. Depending where you live, these records will generally require what was previously called a World subscription, now called a Pro subscription.
 
*[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records Findmypast: Search A-Z of record sets] (located  as an option under the Search tab). [[Findmypast]] is a pay website. Use Search terms such as Caribbean, or individual island names such as Barbados, or Jamaica. Depending where you live, these records will generally require what was previously called a World subscription, now called a Pro subscription.
 
*[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) and ''The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707'' by David Dobson 1999
 
*[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) and ''The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707'' by David Dobson 1999
 
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==Other records==
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*The [[Society of Genealogists]] holds some records relating to the West Indies. Search the catalogue to see what is currently available. The holding at November 2012 is set out in the archived webpage [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103071637/http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/westindies.shtml Overseas: West Indies]. Some of the sources are from ''Caribbeana'' - most of these volumes are available online, refer below.
 
==Also see==
 
==Also see==
 
*[[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#Caribbean publications|Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories : Caribbean publications]].   
 
*[[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#Caribbean publications|Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories : Caribbean publications]].   
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:[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.
 
:[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.
 
:[http://londonfamilyhistory.org/useful-web-links/ Really Useful Weblinks] from London FamilySearch Centre website includes a category Caribbean.
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*[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.
 
*[https://www.caribbeangenweb.org/index.php/en/ CaribbeanGenWeb]. This site is part of the WorldGenWeb Project and is the regional resource page for research in the Caribbean.  
 
*[https://www.caribbeangenweb.org/index.php/en/ CaribbeanGenWeb]. This site is part of the WorldGenWeb Project and is the regional resource page for research in the Caribbean.  
 
*[https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.caribbean/mb.ashx Rootsweb Message Boards: Carribean]. Part of Ancestry. Search the Archives.
 
*[https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.caribbean/mb.ashx Rootsweb Message Boards: Carribean]. Part of Ancestry. Search the Archives.
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===Historical books online===
 
===Historical books online===
 
*[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/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
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*''Caribbeana : being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies'' edited by Vere Langford Oliver. There appear to have been six volumes published, available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002840779 .
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:[https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv1oliv/page/n4 Vol. I] 1910; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv2oliv/page/n4 Vol. II] 1912; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingm03oliv/page/n3 Vol. III] 1914; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeing00oliv/page/n3 Supplement to Vol.IV ''The Registers of St Thomas, Middle Island, St. Kitts''] 1915; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv5oliv/page/n4 Vol. V] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv6oliv/page/n9 Unknown Volume, possibly Volume VI] Commences page 41. All Archive.org.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/monumentalinscri00olivrich ''The Monumental Inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the island of Barbados, British West Indies''] edited by Vere Langford Oliver  1915 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/details/monumentalinscri00olivrich ''The Monumental Inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the island of Barbados, British West Indies''] edited by Vere Langford Oliver  1915 Archive.org
 
:[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/656462 ''More monumental inscriptions : tombstones of the British West Indies''] by  Vere Langford Oliver.  Reprint of ''The Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies''. Collected and edited by V. L. Oliver. 1927.  Catalogue entry with link to a FamilySearch Digital Book. [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE198136&  Direct link]. May take a few minutes to load. Catalogue entry says "Inscriptions copied from cemeteries on the West Indian islands of Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, Grenada, St. Lucia, and Trinidad; on the Bahamas; and in the former Dutch colony of Demerara, now a county of Guyana. With an Index of Names at the back of the book.
 
:[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/656462 ''More monumental inscriptions : tombstones of the British West Indies''] by  Vere Langford Oliver.  Reprint of ''The Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies''. Collected and edited by V. L. Oliver. 1927.  Catalogue entry with link to a FamilySearch Digital Book. [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE198136&  Direct link]. May take a few minutes to load. Catalogue entry says "Inscriptions copied from cemeteries on the West Indian islands of Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, Grenada, St. Lucia, and Trinidad; on the Bahamas; and in the former Dutch colony of Demerara, now a county of Guyana. With an Index of Names at the back of the book.
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924096785278#page/n427/mode/2up "Barbadoes Parish Registers 1678-1679"],  page 419 ''The original lists of persons of quality 
emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels : serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700. With their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. From mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England''.  
Edited by John Camden Hotten.  1874 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924096785278#page/n427/mode/2up "Barbadoes Parish Registers 1678-1679"],  page 419 ''The original lists of persons of quality 
emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels : serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700. With their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. From mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England''.  
Edited by John Camden Hotten.  1874 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/details/miscellaneagenea5192hugh/page/n501 “Some Extracts relating to West Indian Families...”] page 245, ''Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica and the British archivist, Volume V, Fifth Series'' 1923-1925. Archive.org. Only one page.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/miscellaneagenea5192hugh/page/n501 “Some Extracts relating to West Indian Families...”] page 245, ''Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica and the British archivist, Volume V, Fifth Series'' 1923-1925. Archive.org. Only one page.
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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.
 
*[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.
 
*''Jamaica: its Past and Present State'' by James M Phillippo, Baptist Missionary 1843. [https://archive.org/details/jamaicaitspasta00mursgoog/page/n10 London Edition 1843], [https://archive.org/details/jamaicaitspastpr00phil/page/n7  USA Edition 1843] Archive.org.
 
*''Jamaica: its Past and Present State'' by James M Phillippo, Baptist Missionary 1843. [https://archive.org/details/jamaicaitspasta00mursgoog/page/n10 London Edition 1843], [https://archive.org/details/jamaicaitspastpr00phil/page/n7  USA Edition 1843] Archive.org.

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Information on migration between East and West Indies.

There are many surnames common to both India and the West Indies, particularly Jamaica. "I wondered if anybody thought to look westwards when they hit a brick wall in India".[1]

A number of families who were active in India, had in previous generations also taken part in the development of the West Indies. Some of the most effective officers in India during the 1780's and 1790's had previously served in the West Indies. The reverse also applied. Planters from India moved to the West Indies to run plantations there.[2]

Online records

Other records

  • The Society of Genealogists holds some records relating to the West Indies. Search the catalogue to see what is currently available. The holding at November 2012 is set out in the archived webpage Overseas: West Indies. Some of the sources are from Caribbeana - most of these volumes are available online, refer below.

Also see

Information about the database Caribbean Newspapers 1718 - 1876, part of Readex World Newspapers Archive.

External links

FamilySearch microfilms include Wills, 1756-1930 Jamaica. Supreme Court and records using keywords Jamaica. Registrar General. There may be additional microfilms. See the Fibiwiki page FamilySearch Centres for information about microfilms and digitised microfilms.
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.
Really Useful Weblinks from London FamilySearch Centre website includes a category Caribbean.
All Rootsweb Mailing Lists includes Barbados, Jamaica etc. Search the Archives.
from University of Florida Digital Collections

Maps

Historical books online

Vol. I 1910; Vol. II 1912; Vol. III 1914; Supplement to Vol.IV The Registers of St Thomas, Middle Island, St. Kitts 1915; Vol. V 1919; Unknown Volume, possibly Volume VI Commences page 41. All Archive.org.
More monumental inscriptions : tombstones of the British West Indies by Vere Langford Oliver. Reprint of The Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies. Collected and edited by V. L. Oliver. 1927. Catalogue entry with link to a FamilySearch Digital Book. Direct link. May take a few minutes to load. Catalogue entry says "Inscriptions copied from cemeteries on the West Indian islands of Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, Grenada, St. Lucia, and Trinidad; on the Bahamas; and in the former Dutch colony of Demerara, now a county of Guyana. With an Index of Names at the back of the book.

References

  1. Harding, Simon. Private Merchants & Photo's from India Rootsweb India Mailing List 19 December 2009. Scroll down. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  2. Balmer, Nick. Private Merchants & Photo's from India Rootsweb India Mailing List 19 December 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2018.