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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.<ref>Balmer, Nick. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2240384/ Private Merchants & Photo's from India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 19 December 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2018.</ref>
==Online records==
* Also External links and Historical books online, below.*FamilySearch, a free website, contains transcribed records relating to the Caribbean in the [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list/?page=1®ion=CARIBBEAN_CENTRAL_AMERICA Caribbean and Central America collection]. Also see External records below for the FamilySearch Wiki page. * Digitised records from the Endangered Archives Programme at the [[British Library]], London. Note the digitised images are in TIFF format. If you cannot see the images you will need to download a plug-in, see [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Online books - Digital Library of India]] for suggestions.**[https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP148 Inventory of archival holdings in Jamaica (EAP148)] Includes ***[https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP148-2 Angela Reid Collection (Birth, Baptismal, and Death Registers) [1795-1965<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica records**[https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP295 Digitising the endangered archives of Grenada (EAP295)]**Coming, not yet available online (at 2019/01) [https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1013 Digitisation of Wills, Deed Books and Powers of Attorney for St Vincent, 1785-1865 (EAP1013)]. Related completed digitised projects are [https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP345 EAP345], which includes one Book of Wills, and [https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP688 EAP688] Deed Books.**Coming, not yet available online (at 2019/01) [https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1086 Preserving and digitising the historic newspaper, ''The Barbados Mercury Gazette'' (EAP1086)]
==Also see==
*[[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#Caribbean publications|Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories : Caribbean publications]].
