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 over 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	Events in Jamaica	History of Jamaica (Wikipedia, including a Brief Overview
About Anglican Church Records (Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1664-1880)	About Civil Registration (Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1880 - 1930)	Sources for Jamaican Family History - Books	Jamaican Medical Students at Edinburgh University 1890-1895
Latin American Network Information Center Jamaica	Sally's Sources of Jamaican Genealogy	The Island and People	Panama Canal, 1912
Facebook Pages for Jamaican Genealogy	Jamaica Records	Queries	Lookups
Emblems of Jamaica	Family Search Wiki (Sources for Genealogy of Jamaica)	Fun Places on the Web for Jamaica	Probate
Estates in St Andrew 1754	Chris Codrington's Jamaica Sources	TBD	Governor Eyre Addresses (Many Names. Click on Table of Contents and Scroll down Parish)
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	Facebook Page: Jamaican Geneaology Resources. Group administered by Vilma Ruddock.	ORR Inventory of Slaves	English Censuses for Jamaican People by T.Martin-Jones
LINK to Jamaican Ancestral Records by Ann Marie Grant-Lazarus (Includes Nonconformist Burial Records)	Links to Jamaican Freemasonry	World War I Men	Third Jamaica Contingent, WWI
Records Researchers in Jamaica	Dorothy Kew's Family Blog	Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database	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 2024 Legacies of British Slavery - Search Page at Universty College London

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 Caribbean, West Indian Sources