Organizations, books, databases, websites that have assisted me in my research
Scotland
Archives and Records
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives
Local History and Genealogy Societies
Aberdeen & North-East Scotland
Family History Society (ANESFHS)
British Isles Family History Society
of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO)
Central Scotland Family History Society (CSFHS)
Books
Bruce Durie, Scottish Genealogy (Stroud: The History Press, 2012)
National Records of Scotland, Tracing your Scottish Ancestors (Edinburgh: NRS and Birlinn Ltd., 2020)
Trevor Griffiths and Graeme Morton (eds.), A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
Jamaica
Archives and Records
Jamaica Archives and Records Department
Websites
University College London, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, Legacies of British Slavery (ucl.ac.uk)
Patricia Jackson, Jamaican Family Search. http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com. (The website is now hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at Jamaican Family Search | Legacies of British Slavery (ucl.ac.uk))
Books
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740–1800 (New York: Cornell University Press, 1992)
Recovering Scotland’s Slavery Past—The Caribbean Connection, ed. T.M. Devine (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
Douglas J. Hamilton, Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005)
Kamau Brathwaite, The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica 1770–1820 (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2005)
Gad J. Heuman, Between Black and White: Race, Politics, and the Free Coloreds in Jamaica, 1792–1865 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981)
B.W. Higman, Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976)
B.W. Higman, Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2008)
Audra A. Diptee, From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010)
Kate Phillips, Bought and Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2022) Kindle.
Kathleen E.A. Monteith, Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2019)
Douglas Hall, In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-1786 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1999)
Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), Kindle
Geoff Palmer, The Enlightenment Abolished (Penicuik: Henry Publishing, 2007)
Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington and Rachel Lang, Legacies of British Slave-ownership (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Vilma Ruddock, Jamaican Genealogy Research, (Miami: RoseGrange Press, 2024)