Thanks for the offers, Peter. I may take you up on them sometime. With regard to your question, no, there is no overall index to Jamaican births. The indexes are arranged by parish and by year, but you will find several years on one film. Unfortunately, there are some problems with the indexes for St. Elizabeth. FHL microfilm # 1506936 includes birth indexes for St. Elizabeth for 1881-1884, 1886-1889, and 1890-1893, but it also includes other parish indexes. FHL microfilm # 1506937 supposedly covers St. Elizabeth from 1893 to 1920, but there are missing years -- 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918 & 1920. We don't know if those index years are actually missing, or just weren't there when the LDS were microfilming. So, you are right. You will need to look at both films. Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Hyde" <phyde67@bigpond.com> To: <caribbean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [Carib] HALE in Jamaica > Thanks again Dorothy: > > I will try St Elizabeth first as we know that a sister of Arthur Albert > HALE, Zona Hale, was born in St Elizabeth in 1898. The LDS site says for > St > Elizabeth that each year has its own index, so am I right that there is no > master index? And,as I am not 100% certain of the year (according to the > age he gave himself on various Merchant Marine Crew Agreements he was born > between 1892 and 1895), I will need to get the films for St Elizabeth for > each of those years to check their indexes? And that index will then tell > me which district to look in? Cumbersome, but do-able, I guess! > > Thanks for your patience with me as I work my head around the process - if > you ever need an explanation of Merchant Navy Crew Agreements, the > migrations of Chief Big Bear's Band from Canada to and from Montana, or > transcribing 16th century script, let me know! > > Regards > Peter Hyde > A British-born Canadian living in Australia > > *************************** > The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and > Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CARIBBEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message