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:Findmypast, in the category "Newspapers & Periodicals"/British newspapers has added (28 August 2020) ''Colonial Guardian'' (Belize) (Details of this publication<ref>[https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/09/01/new-titles-1-sept-2020/ "Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week"] 1 September 2020. britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.</ref>). Initial coverage is earliest issue: 7 January 1882 and latest issue: 25 December 1897, with planned coverage to 1913. The same title is also available on the pay website British Newspaper Archive, with this [https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/colonial-guardian-belize link] providing details. Belize was previously known as British Honduras, a Caribbean country located on the northeastern coast of Central America.
*[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. Note some of the databases are FamilySearch data, see above (where it is free data). Ancestry also 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, which is located in "Immigration & Emigration") and ''The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707'' by David Dobson 1999 (located in "Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference"). See [[Scotland]] for some background about the Scottish diaspora.
*Sample pages ''Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857'' by David Dobson [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=W2ilmBSkHY8C&pg=PP3 ''Volume 1'', 1998], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=afQEiAK8XD4C&pg=PP9 ''Volume 2'', 2006] Google Books.
*[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.
*Online newspapers are available from free websites, pay websites and through library subscription websites and are mentioned below on this page. There are also many transcriptions from newspapers available.
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