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• Ancestry.com - Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Caribbean, English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800

    Original source: Joanne McRee Sanders. Barbados Records: Baptisms, 1637-1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984.; Joanne McRee Sanders. Barbados Records: Marriages, 1643-1800. Vols. 1-2. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982.; Joanne McRee Sanders. Barbados Records: Wills, 1639-1725. Vols. 1-3. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979-1981.

  • Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834

    Original source: Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication T71); Records created and inherited by HM Treasury; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.

• Anglo-Indian Family Trees & Their Links To British India

  Anglo Indian Family Trees that contains links to other family trees whose members have relatives in or from India.

• British Malaya (Wikipedia)

• Brits in South America Database

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission

  Details of 1.7 million members of UK and Commonwealth forces who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and other wars, and 60,000 civilian casualties of WWII. Gives details of grave site, date of death, age, usually parents/widow's address.

• East India Company Ships

  Shipping Losses in the Mercantile Service 1600-1834 (includes Shipwrecks, Captures & Missing Vessels).

• Falkland Island Genealogy

• History of Lascars

  History about Asain seamen working on British ships.

• Jamaican Ancestry: How to Find Out More

  A book by Madeleine E. Mitchell.

• Jamaican Family Search

• Malta Family History

  For British men and women who were born, married, died, served in the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Marines, the British Army, were residents on the island, or in some manner are connected with Malta.

• Soldiers Whom the World have Forgotten

  Dedicated to the memory of soldiers & their families who died in and around Bangalore, India.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• South American Brits Database

  A database for British genealogists interested in South America.

• The British Empire

  The British Empire is the largest formal empire the world has ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shaping it in all manner of ways. This site is dedicated to analysing the history of the British Empire.

• The British Library - India Office Records and Private Papers

  • India Office Records: Family History Sources

• The Sun Never Set on the British Empire

  Annotated listing of all the territories & possesions held by Great Britain over time. Excellent for determining where the British were and at what times.

• Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors

  A book by Guy Grannum.