Jamaican Genealogy

The coordinator of this World GenWeb Page is Madeleine Mitchell, who was born and brought up in Jamaica. She now is a US citizen and lives in Gainesville, State of Florida, U.S. She has been researching her family history for 40 years. Although she cannot do personal research for clients, she would be happy to give directions to further research resources: e-mail to: Rngmaddy-at-gmail.com

JAMAICA

Pictures of Jamaica	Maps	History	Events in Jamaica
About Anglican Church Records (Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1664-1880)	About Civil Registration (Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1880 - 1930)	Jamaican Medical Students at Edinburgh University 1890-1895	Sources for Jamaican Family History - Books
Reference Shelf on Jamaica	Sally's Sources of Jamaican Genealogy	The Island and People	Sources of Caribbean Genealogy
African Caribbean Link	West Indies Genealogy Newsgroup	Queries	Lookups
Emblems of Jamaica	Jamaica Records	Fun Places on the Web for Jamaica	Probate
Estates in St Andrew 1754	Jamaica Telephone books	Chris Codrington's Jamaica Sources	New Surname List Link, 1999
Loyalist List	My Books	1837-8 Lists, Estates and People	Free Jamaicans, 1754-76
Trelawny Great Houses Link	1907 earthquake	Patricia Jacksons Pages, now located at University College of London (UCL)	Link to List of Rhodes Scholars of Jamaica, 1904-1998
People Freed by Acts of the Assembly (E. Crawford)	Manumissions of Slaves, 1813-1825 (E. Crawford	Index to Early Wills (Madeleine Mitchell)	Obits from Jamaica, 1998-present, Orange C0, NY
Handbook 1900 from J Falink	Link to Genealogy InTime Magazine (Caribbean Countries)	ORR Inventory of Slaves	English Censuses for Jamaican People by T.Martin-Jones
Panama Canal, 1912	Links to Jamaican Freemasonry	World War I Men	Third Jamaica Contingent, WWI
TBD	Joy Lumsden's History and other pages	Early Jamaican Lists and Surinam list	Governor Eyre Addresses (Many Names. Click on Table of Contents and Scroll down Parish)
Records Researchers in Jamaica	Dorothy Kew's Family Blog	Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade	Link to Brief Jewish History of Jamaica
Link to BBC Timeline of Jamaica	Link to LDS FamilySearch. " Use Browse" to see images available from Jamaica. Updated 2013	Links to Jamaican Genealogy	Link to PBS site on Atlantic Slave Trade or the African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
BBC Link to The Story of Africa- Slavery	Link to Anne Power's A Parcel of Ribbons	Link to Jamaican Civil Registration District Abbreviations and Codes	Link to 2013 Legacies of British Slave-Ownership - Search Page
Facebook Page: Jamaican Geneaology Resources. Closed Group administered by Jacquie Weston.	TBD	TBD	TBD

Site Map

Important Addresses:

National Library of Jamaica, (formerly Institute of Jamaica)
12 East Street,
Kingston,
Jamaica,
WEST INDIES
National Library of Jamaica

LDS Family History Center,
48 Gore Terrace,
Kingston,
Jamaica,
WEST INDIES
(876)925-8492

Registrar General's Department,
Twickenham Park,
Spanish Town,
Jamaica,
WEST INDIES.
Registrar General's Department

Jamaica Archives and Records Department,
Spanish Town,
Jamaica,
WEST INDIES
Jamaican Archives and Records Department

Cyndi Howell's Hispanic and West Indian Sources