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*[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Caribbean Caribbean] FamilySearch (LDS) Wiki. Includes links to the pages for Barbados and Jamaica.
:[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.
:Scroll to article (5th page) [http://files.lib.byu.edu/family-history-library/research-outlines/Europe/BritishIsles.pdf "Seventeenth Century Immigration to North America from Great Britain and Ireland"] written by what is now Family Search 1976. lib.byu.edu. Includes the West Indies. Note, due to the date of this article, some sources may now be available online.:[http://londonfamilyhistory.org/useful-web-links/ Really Useful Weblinks] from London Family History website (a FamilySearch Centre website ) includes a category Caribbean. (Note, the information about London FSC is incorrect, as the Centre has closed).
*[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://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyggbs/MainTranscriptionpage.htm The Guyana/ British Guiana Genealogical Society: Transcriptions] Then click on "Vital Records (Births, Engagements, Marriages, Deaths)". sites.rootsweb.com. The transcriptions by Inge R Veecock and Thomas Kidman are also listed in the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3A%22British+Guiana%22&page=1&topic0=Birth%2C+Marriage+and+Death FamilySearch catalogue] as available as two books and one CD-ROM respectively.
*[https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.caribbean/mb.ashx Rootsweb Message Boards: Carribean]. Part of Ancestry. Search the Archives.
:[https://listsmailinglists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkittylistindexes/ Search the Rootsweb Mailing Lists Archives ] for a specific List and then search, or Search All Rootsweb Mailing Lists] including Barbados, Jamaica etc. The closure date for the Lists is scheduled for 2 closed March 2020, but it has been stated the Archives will remain searchable after that date.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080915122721/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/index.php?cat=1 Trace and tell your family’s Empire stories] with links to pages "Government Records of Britons in …" including
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001659/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/chapters/index.php?cat=1&country=22 Government Records of Britons in Dominica]
