I found that too! It took me quite a while to find the website of the National Library of Jamaica. It does not appear to be indexed by Google. I found it in a completely roundabout way. It's http://www.nlj.gov.jm/ Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "NancyFfrench" <kandn.atkinson@gmail.com> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.west-indies To: <caribbean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 4:57 AM Subject: Re: [Carib] National Library of Jamaica Gone Digital On Jul 10, 3:21 am, Spring <spr...@surfbvi.com> wrote: > A large number of the National Library of Jamaica's historic documents > are now accessible on its website and being augmented by other material > about Jamaica culled from the Internet. It is great news that this > exciting development has now "gone live". > My wife and I will certainly be finding out more about this project from > Dr. Hazel Bennett, a friend from way back.. > > Peter Moll > Tortola, BVI > > National Library of Jamaica Gone Digital > > With the click of a mouse in the comfort of their homes, Jamaicans can > now access historical materials, including maps, photographs and plans, > which are stored on the website of the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ). > <http://www.jis.gov.jm/labour/html/20100706T170000-0500_24585_JIS_NATI...> The link you quoted is to Jamaica inf services. On that page is a link to the National Library. Click on it and you get webpage "www.nlj.org.jm" cannot be found. What address are you using to get 8into the Library website plse? nancy Ffrench *************************** 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

Hi Dorothy and all I don't know if anyone has tested the NLJ site but in a brief test of the "estate maps" database presumably on line it is clear the digitization project is far from complete. And does not come close to containing the huge collection of maps and surveys in their collection. So if searching by this means keep in mind it is incomplete. I ran tests on several key properties in Portland and St Thomas which I know to be on various well known survey maps of the 19th century and some yield data and some do not. There are also no call numbers coming up. Researcher beware.... Cod