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:[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.
*[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. Also see the online book below ''Tracing your Caribbean Ancestors : a National Archives Guide''.
*[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. This site may now have ceased, if so, possibly some information may be obtained from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210511202031/http://www.caribbeangenweb.org/index.php/en/ archived website, as at 2021/05/11].
*[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/index.htm TriniGenWeb] for Trinidad. Is/was part of CaribbeanGenWeb, although a different website. The website appears not to have been updated for some years, but some information is still useful. sites.rootsweb.com.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20200516044837/http://www.bermuda-online.org/britarmy.htm British Army units posted to Bermuda from 1701 to 1977] bermuda-online.org, archived
:Boer Prisoners of War. [https://www.wmbr.org.za/view.asp?pg=research&pgsub=prison&pgsub1=2&head1=Prisoners%20of%20War Prisoners of War: POW Camps Overseas] from Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa. [https://www.geni.com/projects/Anglo-Boere-Oorlog-Boer-War-1899-1902-POW-Bermuda/14299 Anglo Boere Oorlog/Boer War (1899-1902) POW Bermuda] geni.com. [https://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=704925 Bermuda, Long Island, Boer Cemetery, Monument] Photographs. graves-at-eggsa.org.
:[https://nmb.bm/discover-learn/genealogy/ Explore Genealogy Research] with a Genealogy database. National Museum of Bermuda. "Become a member to get full access to all downloadable documents".
:[http://www.bnl.bm/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2021/02/Genealogy-Resources-February-2021.pdf Bermuda Genealogy Resources] Bermuda National Library.
*[https://www.openarch.nl/indexen/ openarchives] "search the genealogical data of Dutch and Belgian archives". Includes Slave registers from Curaçao and Suriname together with other records. openarch.nl . Website in English.
*[https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.caribbean/mb.ashx Rootsweb Message Boards: Carribean]. Part of Ancestry. Search the Archives. It is still possible to post a Message Board query, but prior registration is required.
*[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/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.
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