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**[https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1013 Digitisation of Wills, Deed Books and Powers of Attorney for St Vincent, 1785-1865 (EAP1013)]. Related digitised projects are [https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP345 EAP345], which includes one Book of Wills, and [https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP688 EAP688] Deed Books.

** [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/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 West Indies, 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, 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).

**[https://dloc.com/cndl Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library]. [https://dloc.com/title-sets Explore Title Sets] Search for newspaper titles. [https://dloc.com/title-sets?title=Gazette Titles including Gazette] Includes Government and official Gazettes. Mainly online editions appear to date from the 1950s, although there are some earlier ones, such as

***[https://dloc.com/title-sets/AA00047511 ''Barbados Mercury, and Bridge-town Gazette''] 1783 to 1848.

***[https://dloc.com/title-sets/UF00094730 ''Port of Spain Gazette''] Trinidad. 1825 to 1920s.

***[https://www.dloc.com/title-sets/AA00079373 ''San Fernando Gazette''] Trinidad 1850 to 1896.

:[https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_royal-register-jamaica_octavo-6805-17591 ''The Royal Register and Jamaica Almanac, for the year 1810''] including [https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_royal-register-jamaica_octavo-6805-17591/page/n149/mode/2up "Jamaica"] page 134 and [https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_royal-register-jamaica_octavo-6805-17591/page/n153/mode/2up "Jamaica Lists"] page 136. Archive.org

:[https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcscd.00411437553/?sp=9 ''Jamaica Almanac for the year 1846''] Ninth year of publication. Compiled by William Cathcart. Library of Congress loc.gov. [https://archive.org/details/jamaica-almanack-1846/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].

: Other sources: 1791, 1795 and 1798 editions are available on the library subscription website "Eighteenth century collections online". 1825 edition is believed to be on the Gale library subscription database "The Making of the Modern World". See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]].

*''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/search.php?query=title%3A%28The+history%2C+civil+and+commercial%2C+of+the+British+colonies+in+the+West+Indies%29&sort=-date Additional editions Archive.org]

*[https://archive.org/details/b21459484/page/n7/mode/2up ''Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans in that climate : also, Observations on the hepatitis of the East Indies''] by John Hunter 3rd edition 1808, first published 1788, (2nd edition 1796) Archive.org. He was in charge of the military hospitals in Jamaica from the beginning of 1781 until May 1783.

*''Jamaica: its Past and Present State'' by James M Phillippo, Baptist Missionary 1843. [https://archive.org/details/jamaicaitspasta00mursgoog/page/n10 London Edition 1843], [https://archive.org/details/jamaicaitspastpr00phil/page/n7 USA Edition 1843] Archive.org.

*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hA9cAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Sessional Papers, House of Lords Session 1847-8. Volume 40 Reports from Commissioners: Colonial Possessions''] Includes Bermuda from page 33 and West Indies from page 44. Google Books.

*[https://archive.org/details/moraviansinjamai00buch/page/n5 ''The Moravians in Jamaica: History of the Mission of the United Brethren's Church to the Negroes'' ...] by J. H. Buchner 1854 Archive.org.

*First World War period: [https://westindiacommittee.org/historyheritageculture/category/the-caribbeans-great-war/ The Caribbean's Great War] includes links to a number of books including ''The Trinidad Merchants and Planters Contingent 1915-1918 Records of service'' by Henry Dow, 1925, [https://westindiacommittee.org/historyheritageculture/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Record-of-Service-of-Member-of-The-Trinidad-Merchants-and-Planters-Contingent.pdf direct pdf link]. Alternatively [https://westindiacommittee.org/historyheritageculture/archives/ Search the Archive] westindiacommittee.org.

*[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00078553/00001 ''The Red Book of the West Indies historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial, facts, figures, & resources''] by Allister Macmillan 1922. Digital Library of the Caribbean.

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80481/page/n7/mode/2up ''In The West Indies. Sketches and Studies in Tropic Seas and Islands''] by John C Van Dyke 1932 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Van_Dyke John Charles Van Dyke] Wikipedia. American art historian, critic, and nature writer.

*[https://archive.org/details/WhenceTheBlackIrishOfJamaica/page/n4/mode/1up ''Whence the "Black Irish" of Jamaica?''] by Joseph J. Williams, SJ 1932. Archive.org

*[https://archive.org/details/islandsofcommonw00medi/mode/2up ''Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean : a regional study''] by Sandra W. Meditz and Dennis M. Hanratty, Library of Congress, Federal Research Division 1989. Includes a

**[https://archive.org/details/islandsofcommonw00medi/page/12/mode/2up historical overview of the region] from page 12.

*[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.