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==Also see==
*[[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#Caribbean publications|Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories : Caribbean publications]].
:Information about the database Caribbean Newspapers 1718 - 1876, part of Readex World Newspapers Archive, and a database containing ''Blue Book''s from many Caribbean countries.
==External links==
*[http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/index.htm Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library] jamaicanfamilysearch.com
**[http://dloc.com/mapcar Caribbean Map Collection]
:from [http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu University of Florida Digital Collections]
*[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.
*[http://caribbeanrollofhonour-ww1-ww2.yolasite.com Caribbean Roll of Honour 1914-1918 1939-1945] . A page within includes a link now not active, but available as an archived page [https://web.archive.org/web/20091025202527/http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/carib_web/gall_wwi_05.htm Caribbean Online - Routes to Roots. Gallery - World War One and the British West Indies Regiment, Lists of honours and awards] from [https://web.archive.org/web/20091025030912/http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk:80/carib_web/wwi.htm World War One and the British West Indies Regiment] now archived. commonwealth.sas.ac.uk
*[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.
*[https://nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm/items/browse?collection=15&page=1&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle Collection: Jamaica Government Documents] from National Library of Jamaica Digital Collection. Read online or download. Includes
**''Almanack and Register for the Island of Jamaica'' (or similar title) for 1779, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785.
** ''Blue Book. Island of Jamaica'' for years 1852, 1853, 1866 to 1906-1907 (broken range). "Contains statistical information about the island of Jamaica". As an example of the contents,
***for the year [https://nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm/items/show/3555 1906-1907], the Contents page is digital page 2. Each section is allocated a letter, and is separately numbered. The Civil Establishment (civil service employees) is section N and commences digital page 135 - note many of the following pages needed to be read two pages side by side (but it does not seem possible to select a two page option). Information includes employment title, date appointed and salary. There is also a following section "Officers who have given Security", section O digital page 201, and Pensions, section P digital page 232 (again, most/all pages for these two sections need to be read side by side). Total digital pages 582.
*''The Colonial Office List for ...'' Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1862: First publication]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1867], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878]; [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/555073632.pdf 1879] pdf from Oxford University Library, may be slow to open, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879 Google Books edition] should become freely available 2020; [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoog/page/n14 1881]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89090339342?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 1889]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003/page/23 1903]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 1904]; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1922 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992447 B]
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