Jamaica Archives and Libraries

Registrar General's Department Email: genealogy@rgd.gov.jm Genealogical requests are accepted for a fee Genealogical Research Application Form.

Archives
National Archives at Kew, England National Museum of Jamaica provides much historical background on the island. Address: Museums of History and Ethnography Institute of Jamaica 10-16 schwimmbecken aufblasbar East street Kingston CSO Jamaica West Indies Telephone: 1-876-922-0621/6 Email: museums@institituteofjamaica.org.jm Website: National Museum of Jamaica The National Archives Kew, Richmond Surrey TW9 4DU England Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8876 3444 Contact form Internet: UK National Archives
 * Records for Jamaica include: Colonial Office correspondence, sessional papers, various slave marriages, 1821-1825, Inhabitants of Port Royal and St. John's 1680, St. Andres' parish: Landholders 1754, return of land grants, 1735-1754, return of land grants, 1805-1824. Micellaneous recors of slave returns, list of convicts, and workhouse returns.

British Library at St. Pancras 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB England www.bl.uk


 * Collection includes: A Collection of all the Monumental Inscriptions Prior to 1750 in Barbados, also Similar Inscriptions in Jamaica by J H Lawrence-Archver 1857-58; 312 Abstracts of WIlls of English Colonists or Landholders with Jamican Connexions, Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1625-1792 by Mrs V T C Smith.

World Jewish Conference provides a history of Jews in Jamaica. Address: Email: Website: World Jewish Congress