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A Parcel of Ribbons - Eighteenth Century Jamaica viewed through family stories and documents

A blog about eighteenth century Jamaica including family trees and useful links for those researching Jamaican connections.

Barbados Family History

Resources that Barbadian researchers.

Bermudian Genealogy & History

Bermuda surnames, as well as lists of ships passengers to Bermuda and various other things of interest to a person researching ancestors from Bermuda.

Bibliography for Researchers of Jamaican Genealogy and History

Caribbean Family History

Free access to burials, MIs, plantations, slave compensations, Quaker and minister lists mostly for Antigua and Barbados.

Caribbean Genealogy Research

Country by country links and addresses for genealogy.

Caribbean Roots: Caribbean Ancestry and Heritage

To encourage and promote research into Caribbean genealogy, identity and heritage.

CreoleLinks.com

CreoleLinks.com and Barbados genealogy, a template for researching Caribbean genealogy.

Cuban Ancestry

Discover your Cuban family history and start your family tree. Find resources for many Cuban genealogy records including census, land and cemetery records.

DOMTOM-GENEA

Genealogical website for French territories overseas as Carribean, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Reunion Island and neighbouring countries as Mauritius, Pondichery /Site généalogique pour la France d'Outre-Mer : Dom-Tom.

Early Caribbean Digital Archive

For the collaborative research and study of pre-C20 Caribbean literature. The ECDA seeks to engage both scholars and students in a shared, critical study of the textual, material, and cultural histories of the Caribbean by providing them with innovative digital technologies and newly emerging discursive platforms for generating new knowledges of the Caribbean’s rich body of materials.

Family History of Jamaica, West Indies

From Madeleine Mitchell. ARSCOTT, COVER, MURRAY, LEVY.

Genealogia

Spanish and Cuban genealogy links.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

genealogie509 | Croisée des générations

Genealogie509, the first website in Haiti to guide people how to get documents, etc.

Genealogy of the Cayman Islands

GenealogyInTime Magazine - Caribbean Genealogy Records

A handy guide to the most recent genealogy records on the internet organized by country and region.

Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraïbe

Index to Historia de Familias Cubanas, Vols 1-9 - (Histories of Cuban Families)

Jamaican Family Search

A Jamaican genealogy reference library containing Lists of Proprietors and Properties and Civil and Military Lists from 19th century Jamaican Almanacs, extractions from Wills and Registers, and useful Jamaican research tools.

Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library

The site contains transcriptions from various documents including nineteenth century Jamaica Almanacs (which list property owners and civil and military officials), Jamaica Directories for 1878, 1891 and 1910, extractions from Jamaican Church records, Civil Registration, Wills, Jewish records, and excerpts from newspapers, books, and other documents.