It includes a Glossary, Historical Background, and other Utilities to aid in putting this information in focus. New information will be added each month from books, manuscripts, registers, wills and other documents, thus creating a virtual genealogy library for those researching Jamaican families. They all left their imprint in the Jamaican records.
Facts come to light, and skeletons jangle in the closet.
This site now contains approximately 105,500 names of individuals. Jamaica Almanacs Starting in the nineteenth century these Almanacs contained a list of the proprietors and properties. The Almanac also listed official and other persons on the island in the Civil and Military Lists. These Almanacs are an excellent place in which to kick off your research, especially if you do not know the parish in which your family lived. A search for the surname will lead to a parish in which their property was located.