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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 see External links and Historical books online, below.*FamilySearch, a free website, contains transcribed records relating to the Caribbean , and in addition many images. From the list of all [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list/?page=1®ion=CARIBBEAN_CENTRAL_AMERICA Historical Record Collections], use the filters on the left hand side of the webpage to select "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
**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)]
*[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
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