By Z on Friday, March 02, 2012 - 09:27 am: Edit PostJamaican Genealogy Sources For Those Beginning Their Search
• Civil Registration of Jamaicans began in Jamaica in 1878 as opposed to England when it began in 1837 and Scotland when 1855 was the initial date.
The Government as compared to the church, began to keep records of births, deaths and marriages. The originals of the Jamaican records are held in the Island Record Office in Spanish Town, Jamaica, however the LDS-the Mormons have filmed these records and they are available through Family History Centers.
(On Line:...FamilySearch.org)
• Some CDrom versions do not have the Civil Registration indexes, so check the microfiche. A finding aid for both Civil Registration and Church Records may also be found in the free samples at Patricia Jackson's jamaicanfamilysearch site: Patricia Jackson's Site.
The advantage of looking here is that Patricia has documented the missing record books which were not then available for microfilming
http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/beginscs.htm
A Research Library That a turey Would Love:
Jamaican Genealogy Reading Sources:
http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/sources.htm
An Indispensable Source:
Don Lindo's Genealogy of Jamaica is an aid to research on Jamaican Families and contains data on more than 25,000 families, over 2000 photos plus numerous text files, all with Jamaican connections. Once installed on your PC you can add your own research and build your own family tree.
It is a result of many years of research and includes many extensive family trees, information extracted from Jamaican newspapers, articles etc., and even data on our National Heroes, Christopher Columbus and other prominent people associated with Jamaica going back several centuries.
It also includes over 7000 burial records at the St. Andrew Parish Church (1657-2000), and files listing names of several thousand slaves that were freed before official Emancipation.
In many cases the reputed fathers are named. There are also some birth and death records extracted from official records.
www.discoverjamaica.com/shop/genealogy.html