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*Rootsweb page [http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~guppyross/genealogy/trinidadhome.html Trinidad Collection]
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: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.
*[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.:[http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~guppyross/genealogy/trinidadhome.html Trinidad Collection] freepages.rootsweb.com
*[https://www.vc.id.au/tb/ British Guiana Colonists] an index to an on-going database of 18th and 19th century residents of the colonies of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequebo, of over 15900 individuals. Generally considered part of the British West Indies, although geographically located on the northern coast of South America. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Guiana British Guiana] Wikipedia
**[https://vc.id.au/edg/ Guyana Colonial Newspapers] Transcripts of early 19th century newspapers from the colonies that made up present day Guyana from microfilm from National Archive of the Netherlands.
:[https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyggbs/MainTranscriptionpage.htm The Guyana/ British Guiana Genealogical Society: Transcriptions] Then click on "Vital Records (Births, Engagements, Marriages, Deaths)". sites.rootsweb.com. The transcriptions by Inge R Veecock and Thomas Kidman are also listed in the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3A%22British+Guiana%22&page=1&topic0=Birth%2C+Marriage+and+Death FamilySearch catalogue] as available as two books and one CD-ROM respectively.
*[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 query, but prior registration is required.
:[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/ Search the Rootsweb Mailing Lists Archives] for a specific List and then search, or Search All Rootsweb Mailing Lists including Barbados, Jamaica etc. The Lists closed March 2020, but the Archives remain searchable.
*[https://memorials.rmg.co.uk Maritime Memorials] in respect of ships’ crews’ deaths, both Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, from all around the world. Includes transcriptions of UK memorials for deaths "overseas". Search for entries using terms such as Barbados, Jamaica, etc, a small number are classified West Indies, or Caribbean, or search by name. An associated National Maritime Museum, UK website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080915122721/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/index.php?cat=1 Trace and tell your family’s Empire stories] with links to pages "Government Records of Britons in …" including
:''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
:* 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. [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 bookYear Book''. Initially compiled by J H Collens, then by C B Franklin and alternatively titled ''Franklin's Year Book''. [https://books.google.com.au/books?q=editions:LCCNcau24000051&id=SsNAAQAAMAAJ&lr=&sa=N&start=20 Searchable editions from 1920] but some will be viewable if you live in North America. Google Books. Cambridge University holds (according to Library Hub Discover) 1898,1905-1906,1913-1916,1919-1920,1923-1930,1933-1936,1938,1940,1945-1947,1949-1950 and morelater editions. Yearbooks of 1926 to 1941 include a section on Barbados. Publication ended in 1969 with the 102nd issue.
:''The Creole Almanack for Trinidad and Tobago'' for the four years 1891-1894 is available on the library subscription website "Nineteenth century collections online"/Maps and Travel Literature. See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]], section Caribbean publications. Also available at the British Library.
*[https://cdm16964.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/dc Collection: Government Publications from National Library of Jamaica] on oclc.org Consists of 4 editions of ''Blue Book'', ''Jamaica'' for 1852, 1853, 1866, 1867.
