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:It is possible to browse individual editions on BNA, in addition to searching. To browse the Findmypast editions, use the filters under "Narrow your search results" (left hand side of the webpage) "By Newspaper" and "By Date".
*[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).
:Also included is the Ancestry database "Caribbean, English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800" (located in BMD) from a series of six books (one of baptisms, two of marriages and three of wills) published 1979-1984 by Joanne McRee Sanders using data from copied parochial registers in the Barbados Department of Archives. The book books ''Barbados Records Baptisms 1637-1800'' and ''Barbados Records Marriages, 1643-1800, Volume 1'' which is are part of this Ancestry database is are available online (free), see below.
: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.
*For further books by David Dobson available online, see Historical books online below.
*[https://archive.org/details/genealogiesofbar00bran ''Genealogies of Barbados families : from Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society''] by James C Brandow. 1983. Archive.org Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/barbadosrecords00sand/page/n5/mode/2up ''Barbados Records Baptisms 1637-1800''] compiled and edited by Joanne McRee Sanders 1984. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Data from copied parochial registers in the Barbados Department of Archives.
:[https://archive.org/details/barbadosrecordsm0001sand/page/n1/mode/2up ''Barbados Records Marriages 1643-1800, Volume 1''] compiled and edited by Joanne McRee Sanders 2011 reprint, first published 1982. Consists of four parishes from the island (St. Michael, Christ Church, St. James and St. John), while Volume 2 contains five more parishes. (Two further parishes did not have data for the date range). Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Data from copied parochial registers in the Barbados Department of Archives.
*[https://archive.org/details/bermudaindex178402holl/page/n3/mode/2up ''Bermuda Index, 1784-1914. An Index of Births, Marriages, Deaths, as Recorded in Bermuda Newspapers Volume 2, L-Z''] by C F E Hollis Hallett (Clara Frances Edith) 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
: Volume 1, A-K does not appear to be available online, but is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006015682 and UIN: BLL01007907204 . The British Library has additional titles by both this author and her husband A C Hollis Hallett.
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