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==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 Historical Record Collections], use the filters on the left hand side of the webpage to select "Caribbean and Central America". There may be additional databases found by [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search/ Searching the Catalog]. 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. Findmypast indicates that at least some of the Barbados records are sourced via the International Genealogical Index<ref>[https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/findmypast-friday-febraury-2629656939.html Findmypast Friday February 22nd [2019<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref> (from [[FamilySearch]]), although the databases themselves do not give this information. Some of the Jamaica databases are stated to be created through the International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) and it is possible that others also come from FamilySearch. 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. 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.
===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/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
*''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, together with one supplementary volume, total seven. Generally there is an Index at the back of the book.
:[https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv1oliv/page/n3 Vol. I] 1910, [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv1oliv/page/n15 Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv2oliv/page/n4 Vol. II] 1912, [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv2oliv/page/n11 Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingm03oliv/page/n3 Vol. III] 1914, [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingm03oliv/page/n13 Contents]; [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/caribbeanabeingmv5oliv/page/n15 Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv6oliv/page/n9 Vol. VI] Commences page 41, no Contents or Index. All 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://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/225619 ''Monumental inscriptions of Jamaica''] compiled by Philip Wright 1966 FamilySearch Digital Library. Catalogue entry with link to a FamilySearch Digital Book to read online or download. You need to be registered and sign in first, see [[Family Search]].
*[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.
