Thread: Jamaican genealogy links

To help with researching Caribbean ancestors,

http:// jamaicanfamilysearch.com
(A wealth of information and links here.)

www.familysearch.org

(use the Advanced search, fill in Jamaica(or whatever) as Country.
Select Parents/ Relations and fill in father's surname.
Put mother's name in Box.
Leave all other fields blank.
Click search)

Home | Registrar's General Department

Use google search for other sites/links.

For other information try http://www.aboutjamaica.com/

Life Events - Births, marriages, Deaths, Registers and Records

Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library

Sources of Jamaican Family History for Beginners

BBC - Family History - Researching African-Caribbean Family History

Civil Registration of Jamaica

Genealogy: Family Tree, mormon family history, births marriages and deaths- looks quite interesting

Jamaican Genealogy: Where do I begin? [F]

Jamaican family history - Your Archives- looks informative

BBC - Who Do You Think You Are? - Ainsley Harriott - How we did it - Slavery- this was on Aynsley harriot but some of the places they searched may be useful

Sorry these are quite comprehensive but I was thinking these births etc must have been recorded as the British ones were . Not sure on the legal years and before that its down to parishes I would imagine - wherever there was a church in the areas where your relations lived is a good start

The Diocese of Jamaica & the Cayman Islands | Church Directory-- this one names the parishes and the churches

and this one ,.....Jamaica Gleaner : Pieces of the Past: Out Of Many Cultures: RELIGIOUS ICONS


St. Andrew Registers [F]