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** [https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1086 Preserving and digitising the historic newspaper, ''The Barbados Mercury Gazette'' (EAP1086)]. Editions from 1783 to 1848 (broken range). These same digital files appear to be also available on the Digital Library of the Caribbean, see External links, below. '''Update''' 9 August 2021. Also available as “Free to View Pages” on the otherwise pay websites Findmypast and British Newspaper Archive. Pages are searchable. Details<ref name=BNA>[https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/free-newspapers "Explore over one million historical newspaper pages for Free"] 9 August 2021 Findmypast Blog. [https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/08/09/introducing-free-to-view-pages-on-the-british-newspaper-archive/ "Introducing Free to View Pages on the British Newspaper Archive"] British Newspaper Archive Blog 9 August 2021. It is necessary however to register. Searching is generally better on BNA.</ref>.
**[https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1251 Digitisation of the Historic Newspaper, The Barbadian (EAP1251)] (1822-1863) from Barbados. These same digital files will probably also become available on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (but they do not appear to be there at 5 Sept 2020). '''Update''' 9 August 2021. Also available as “Free to View Pages” on the otherwise pay websites Findmypast and British Newspaper Archive. Pages are searchable. Details<ref name=BNA/>.
**[https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP914 The Turks and Caicos Islands (EAP914)] and [https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP408 The Turks and Caicos Islands (EAP408)]. The former collection includes birth, marriage and death records, at least some of which have been indexed and are available as three free databases on the otherwise pay website Findmypast, see next item. *[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records Findmypast: Search A-Z of record sets] (located as an option under the Search tab). [[Findmypast]] is a pay website. Use Search terms such as Caribbean, or individual island names such as Barbados, or Jamaica. Findmypast indicates that at least some of the Barbados records are sourced via the International Genealogical Index<ref>[https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/findmypast-friday-febraury-2629656939.html Findmypast Friday February 22nd 2019].</ref> (from [[FamilySearch]]), although the databases themselves do not give this information. Some of the Jamaica databases are stated to be created through the International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) and it is possible that others (perhaps most) also come from FamilySearch. The database "St Kitts & Nevis Baptisms 1716-1881" was added 9 July 2021 for , from Anglican parishes, source not otherwise stated, but probably not FamilySearch. These records will generally require what was previously called a Findmypast World subscription, now called a Pro subscription, (however FamilySearch records are free on FamilySearch, see above).:Three free databases were added to Findmypast 17 September 2021 which are Index records with links to images on the British Library Endangered Archives Project. [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/turks-and-caicos-births-and-baptisms-1792-1934 Turks & Caicos Births & Baptisms, 1792-1934], [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/turks-and-caicos-marriages-1799-1940 Turks & Caicos Marriages, 1799-1940] and [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/turks-and-caicos-deaths-and-burials-1804-1947 Turks & Caicos Deaths & Burials, 1804-1947]. These are Anglican, Methodist and civil records (but no civil marriage records).
: Findmypast database [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/caribbean-rolls-of-honour-ww1?sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114_1602979566_78142e739842add4e46372c7a81d7764 "Caribbean Rolls Of Honour WW1"] located in Military, Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, added c 16 Oct. 2020, with initial data relating to Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, with more data, for Bahamas, Barbados, St Kitts & Nevis and Bermuda added c 27 Nov. 2020. Source of data is not stated, but see External links below for a similarly named website.
:Findmypast, in the category "Newspapers & Periodicals"/British newspapers includes newspapers classified by 'County' for Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, and Saint Kitts (as at 2021/02/20). (British Newspapers are available to individuals with a Pro subscription (previously called World subscription, or the top subscription) but not via library and community subscriptions. (Previously British newspapers were also available with the British subscription, but this no longer applies for new subscriptions.)) The same titles are also available on the pay website British Newspaper Archive, classified both by 'Region' and 'County' with the same headings.
