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*Also see External links and Historical books online, below.
*Also see [[General Register Office]] [United Kingdom] for general information about birth, marriage and death records for British nationals abroad.
*Also see [[Chaplains Returns]] for general information about birth, marriage and death records for British Army soldiers and their families abroad, as there were British Army regiments stationed in the West Indies.*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 right hand side of the webpage to select "Caribbean and Central America". Note there are some overall Caribbean databases, and also specific country databases. There may be additional databases found by [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search/ Searching the Catalog]. Alternatively, from the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/ Records/ Search page], first click on Browse Places, then click on the map for the Caribbean/West Indies area, and select a country. However, check that the overall Caribbean databases are also included through the specific country pages.
:Historical Images, reached from FamilySearch/Search/Images is an alternative way of accessing records available as images on your home computer, but will not access databases only available as transcribed indexes, or records which are only available at Family History Centres, or FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries.
:Also see External records below for the FamilySearch Wiki page.
:** ''St. Kitts Daily Express'' (Details of this publication<ref name= Feb08/>.) [https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/st-kitts-daily-express BNA page]. Added Feb 2, 2021. Available years 1884, 1886, with 1884–1915 planned. Added Jul 27, 2022 newspapers for 1906, 1909-1915.
:*St. Lucia
:**''Voice of St. Lucia'' (Details of this publication<ref name=June21/>.) [https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/voice-of-st-lucia BNA page]. Added Jun 14, 2022 and Jun 22, 2022 with earliest issue: January 31, 1885 and latest issue: December 25, 1915 with planned coverage to 1927. Added Jul 20, 2022 newspapers for 1889. 1916 added Feb 22, 2024.
:*Trinidad and Tobago
:**''The Trinidad Chronicle'' (Brief details of this publication <ref>[https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2022/08/15/hot-off-the-press-new-titles-this-week-3/ "Hot Off the Press – New Titles This Week"] 15 August 2022. britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.</ref>.) [https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/trinidad-chronicle BNA page]. Added Aug 10-12, 2022 with earliest issue: November 11, 1864 and latest issue: September 30, 1885.
**Dutch language [https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/nieuws/op-zoek-naar-je-antilliaanse-roots/ article] from the website WieWasWie, a Dutch pay genealogical website. Using [https://translate.google.com Google Translate] gives "WieWasWie contains the civil status records of the six islands that were part of the former Netherlands Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, St Eustatius and St Maarten. To search in all records of the Antillean civil status, under 'Advanced search', under 'Country', first select World, and then under 'Region' Netherlands Antilles."
**Search online newspapers and books on the free Dutch language website [https://www.delpher.nl Delpher], developed by the KB (National Library), "Ruim 130 miljoen pagina's uit Nederlandse kranten, boeken en tijdschriften" ["More than 130 million pages from Dutch newspapers, books and magazines"]. [https://www.delpher.nl/over-delpher/wat-zit-er-in-delpher/wat-zit-er-in-delpher/kranten#cc362 Wat zit er in Delpher?] (Dutch language) advises there are newspapers “de Antillen, Amerika en Suriname”, with a link to [https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten#krantenoverzicht Krantenoverzicht] which then links to a pdf, [https://www.kb.nl/kbhtml/delpher/documentatie/beschikbare_kranten_alfabetisch.pdf List of newspapers] (Dutch language).
**[https://archive.org/details/aruba?and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22 English language items from the Aruba Collection (Coleccion Aruba)], the documentary heritage portal for the island nation of Aruba, in the Internet Archive, Archive.org. Some of the items relate to the West Indies more generally.
==Other records==
*The [[Society of Genealogists]] holds some records relating to the West Indies. Search the catalogue to see what is currently available. The holding at November 2012 is set out in the archived webpage [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103071637/http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/westindies.shtml Overseas: West Indies]. Some of the sources are from ''Caribbeana'' - all of these volumes are available online, refer [[West Indies#Historical books online|below]]. Also includes the book ''Tracing your West Indian ancestors: sources in the Public Record Office: PRO readers’ guide, no. 11'' [by Guy Grannum, 1995, subsequently republished as ''Tracing your Caribbean ancestors : a National Archives guide'' 2012], now available online, see [[West Indies#Historical books online|below]].
***[https://www.dloc.com/title-sets/AA00079373 ''San Fernando Gazette''] Trinidad 1850 to 1896.
*[https://westindiacommittee.org/historyheritageculture/archives/ West Indian History, Heritage and Culture: Archive] the West India Committee’s online portal includes books in pdf format.
*[https://archive.org/details/aruba?and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22 English language items from the Aruba Collection (Coleccion Aruba)], the documentary heritage portal for the island nation of Aruba, in the Internet Archive, Archive.org. Some of the items relate to the West Indies more generally.
*''Calendar of State Papers, Colonial series. America and West Indies. Preserved by the Public Record Office'' [United Kingdom]. Most Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa16offigoog ''1574-1660''] 1860, [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol5 Volume 5, ''1661-1668''] 1880 and [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol7 Volume 7, ''1669-1674''] 1889, both transcribed editions BHO, [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa19offigoog ''1675-1676 and Addenda 1574-1674''] 1893 all edited by W Noel Sainsbury; [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa08offigoog ''1677-1680''] edited by W Noel Sainsbury and WJ Fortescue 1896: [https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep168185grea/page/n3/mode/2up ''1681-1685''] reprint edition, first published 1898,[https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa18offigoog ''1685-1688''] 1899, [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa14offigoog ''1689-1692''] 1901, [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa00fortgoog ''January 1693-14 May 1696''] 1908, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924087794685 ''15 May 1696- 31 October 1697''] 1904, [https://archive.org/details/calendarstatepa13offigoog ''27 October 1697-31 December 1698''] 1905, the latter all edited by W J Fortescue;
*[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://archive.org/details/the-jews-of-eighteenth-century-jamaica-a-testamentary-history-of-a-diaspora-in-transition/mode/2up ''The Jews Of Eighteenth Century Jamaica. A Testamentary History Of A Diaspora In Transition''] by Stanley Mirvis 2020. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/naturalizationso24grea/page/n27/mode/2up Pages 1-6] ''Naturalizations of foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian colonies : (pursuant to statute 13 George II. c. 7)'' being Volume 24, ''The Publications of the Huguenot Society of London'' edited by M S Giuseppi 1921 Archive.org. These records relate to Jamaica 1740-1751 and most relate to Jewish persons.
*[https://archive.org/details/medicalregisterf1783lond/page/168/mode/2up "West Indies"] pages 169-172 ''The Medical Register for the year 1783''. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/b24850135/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Barbados Handbook''] by E Goulburn Sinckler 1912 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/hndbk-barbados-1913/page/n9/mode/2up ''1913 2nd edition, New and Revised''] Archive.org
*''The Grenada Handbook, Directory and Almanac''. [https://archive.org/details/grenadahandbook00unkngoog/page/n5/mode/2up 1897] compiled by Edward Drayton, Colonial Secretary. 1897. Second Year of Issue. [https://archive.org/details/grenadahandbook01unkngoog 1902] compiled by The Colonial Secretary. Seventh year of issue. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/st-lucia-handbook/page/n21/mode/2up ''The St. Lucia Handbook, Directory, and Almanac for the year…1901''] compiled by Everard G Garraway 1901 Archive.org.
*[https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00000050/00001 ''The Trinidad almanac and public register, for the year of our Lord, 1827''], [https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00000050/00001/9j Index]. Digital Library of the Caribbean.[https://archive.org/details/trinidad-almanac-images/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
:''The Trinidad Official and Commercial Register and Almanack. Compiled from Official Records, Etc. By Authority''
:*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=o7E0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP3 1882] 17th Year of publication; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hQJQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 1888] 23rd year of publication. Both by R J Lechmere Guppy. Google Books. Archive.org mirror versions [https://archive.org/details/trinidad-register-1882/page/n1/mode/2up 1882], [https://archive.org/details/trinidad-register-1888/page/3/mode/2up 1888].:* Title change to ''The Trinidad and Tobago ...'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WMUj72AR5VMC&pg=PP1 1894] published 1893. 29th Year of Issue; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=E29EAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 1896] published 1895. 31st Issue. Both by James Henry Collens. Google Books. Archive.org mirror versions [https://archive.org/details/trinidad-register-1894/page/n1/mode/2up 1894], [https://archive.org/details/trinidadt-register-1896/page/n3/mode/2up 1896]. [http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~guppyross/genealogy/trinidad/TrinidadAlmanac1899.pdf Limited transcriptions, 1899 edition] from an edition held at the National Archives of Trinidad & Tobago. freepages.rootsweb.com/~guppyross.
:*The title subsequently changed to''Trinidad and Tobago Year Book''. Initially compiled by J H Collens, then by C B Franklin and alternatively titled ''Franklin's Year Book''.
::[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28%22Trinidad+and+Tobago+Year+Book%22%29&sort=date ''Trinidad and Tobago Year Book'' at Archive.org] broken range from 1911-1948, plus 1966. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofca0000gosl/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Bibliography of the Caribbean''] by Marian Goslinga 1996 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*''The Sugar Barons : Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies'' by Matthew Parker, first published 2011. [https://archive.org/details/sugarbaronsfamil0000park_a8m5/mode/2up File 1, 2011], [https://archive.org/details/sugarbaronsfamil0000park_x6r6/mode/2up File 2, 2012] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Barbados, Jamaica and the Leeward Islands from 1650.
*[https://archive.org/details/bwb_KR-252-420/mode/2up ''A Guide to Records in Barbados''] by M J Chandler 1965. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/tracingancestors0000lane/mode/2up ''Tracing Ancestors in Barbados : a Practical Guide''] by Geraldine Lane 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. '''Note''', due to the date of publication, any references to digital sources are likely to be out of date.
*[https://archive.org/details/tracingyourcarib0000gran/mode/2up ''Tracing your Caribbean Ancestors : a National Archives Guide''] [UK] by Guy Grannum. 3rd edition 2012, (first published 1995, 2nd edition 2002). Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. '''Note''', due to the date of publication, any references to digital sources are likely to be out of date. However, also see the website ''Caribbean Roots'' above, by the author.
