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Caribbean
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Genealogy oriented

Jamaican Jewish Families (archived version)
Jamaican Jewish Records and Families
Jewish Cemetery on Nevis
Naming patterns of Curacao Sephardim
Curacao Sephardim
Caribbean, Jewish gateway to the Americas
Sefarad in Puerto Rico Genetic studies and Machado Joseph Disease mutation

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General Sites
Jews of Cuba - history, names, synagogues, burials, photos, etc.
Sephardic Jews in Cuba. by Margalit Bejarano
History of the Jews of Cuba.
The Tragedy of the S.S. St. Louis.
Sephardim and Fidel Castro
Jewish Community of Nevis Archaeology Project
Mikvé Israel-Emanuel website
The Curaçao Jewish Community Today
350 Years Mikve Israel-Emanuel Curacao (archived version)
Jewish History of Puerto Rico

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Bibliography

For a more complete extensive bibliography

Malka, Jeffrey S.

Sephardic Genealogy:
Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World.

Avotaynu, 2002. Click here for Table of Contents and to order.
Indispensible. The ONLY comprehensive book for Sephardic Genealogy. -- History, research methods, archives, surnames, maps, bibliography, and more. (Includes Holland, St. Thomas, St. Croix and Nevis, Curacao, St Eustatia, St Maarten, Jamaica, Argentina, Brazil, etc.).

Liebman, Seymour B.

The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World.
University of Miami Press.
Except for a brief introduction, the entire book is a listing of Inquisition Records in the New World. Good source for converso names in the New World.

Emmanuel, Isaac Samuel and Suzanne A. Emmanuel
Precious Stones of the Jews in Curaçao: Curaçaon Jewry 1656-1957.
NY: Bloch, 1957 (out of print)

Emmanuel, Isaac Samuel and Suzanne A. Emmanuel
History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles.
Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1970 (out of print)

Barnett, R.D. & P.Wright

The Jews of Jamaica; Tombstone Inscriptions. 1663-1880.
Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, 1997.
Good source and index.

Mordechai Arbell

The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica.
University Press of the West Indies (Canoe Press), 2000.

Mordechai Arbell

The Jewish nation of the Caribbean : the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas.
New York: Gefen Pub., 2002.

Birmingham, Stephen

The Grandees. America's Sephardic Elite.
Sephardic version of "Our Crowd". About the early Sephardic families in the US.

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