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**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.
**[https://archive.org/details/barbadosscotland00dobs/mode/2up ''Barbados and Scotland links, 1627 – 1877''] by David Dobson 2005. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Includes records for baptism, marriage and death in Barbados for those from Scotland.
**Also see other book titles by David Dobson, not available online, under "Other records", below.
*[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.
*The [[British Library]] holds the book ''Monuments of the Cathedral-Church and Parish of St. Catharine: being part I. of Church Notes and Monumental Inscriptions of Jamaica, in the year 1824'' by John Roby, published Montego-Bay, Jamaica : A. Holmes, 1831. UIN: BLL01003126950 . Also available at [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8791625 Yale University Library] where the book contains "Ms. notes and additions in text".
:By the same author: ''The history of the parish of St. James, in Jamaica : with notes on the general history, genealogy, and monumental inscriptions of the island'' by John Roby. Published Kingston, Jamaica : Printed by R.J. De Cordova, 1849. Contains information to 1740.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv1oliv/page/700/mode/1up Page 336] ''Caribbeana : being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies'' by Vere Langford Oliver Volume I, 1910 Archive.org</ref> Held by [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8786537 Yale University Library], bound in three parts, with "Ms. corrections of author in text". There are also references to microfiche of this book published "Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 2008. 2 microfiches ; 11 x 15 cm. (Genealogy and local history ; LH19183)". UMI [University Microfilms International] became part of [https://web.archive.org/web/20081001164511/http://www.proquest.com/brand/umi.shtml Proquest], but current situation is unclear.
*Books by David Dobson, who is also the author of books available online, see above.**''Scots in Jamaica 1655-1855'' published 2011. Available at the National Library of Scotland, [https://search.nls.uk/permalink/f/sbbkgr/44NLS_ALMA21481914980004341 catalogue entry]; also available FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1948025 catalogue entry].**''People of the Leeward Islands : 1620-1860'' published 2018. Available FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3039614 catalogue entry].**''The People of the Windward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Curacao 1620-1860'' published 2019. [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_People_of_the_Windward_Islands_Trini.html?id=D3hUwwEACAAJ Google Books description]. Available FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3303026 catalogue entry]. Stated to be a reprint of a 2010 book.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210402055440/https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/researching-family-roots-the-caribbean-this-book-might-help/ZpklSWS4Q02ChvY7GFcRDP/ "Researching family roots in the Caribbean? This book might help"] by Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. ajc.com.</ref>
==Also see==
*[[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#Caribbean publications|Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories : Caribbean publications]].
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