Hi Peter: I suggest you start with the birth indexes, either to St. Elizabeth or to Westmoreland. These will be vital registration records. Jamaica began civil registration of births and deaths in 1878, and of marriages in 1880. The microfilms of the actual registrations are arranged by parish, and within each parish by district. Each parish has a letter code, for example -- K, for St. Elizabeth, and L, for Westmoreland. Each district of the parish has another letter code, so for example, if your ancestor was born in Black River, St. Elizabeth, the letter code would be KA followed by the registration number. The birth indexes are arranged by year, so once you find the letter code for the year you are researching you would then go back to the Family History Library Catalogue to find the film with that registration letter code and number. Hope that helps! Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Hyde" <phyde67@bigpond.com> To: <caribbean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [Carib] HALE in Jamaica > Hi Dorothy > > Many thanks for that - I had figured that I would probably have to do the > LDS route and you have given very helpful signposts as to which films I > will > need to order. I found the catalogue on the LDS London site ( > http://www.londonfhc.org/content/catalogue?p=Caribbean,Jamaica ) easier to > follow that the one on the Salt Lake Site. Not being sure of the birth > location makes it difficult when there isn't a central registry. Are the > films indexed, or does one have to go through them page-by-page, > church-by-church, year-by-year to find a particular name? > > Regards > Peter Hyde > South Australia > (wet, windy, 15 degrees) > > *************************** > 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