Indian laborers were brought in accordance with Acts of the Assembly in 1842 through 1899. 
German settlers were brought to the island in the mid 1800s. Domingue arrived in the late 18th century. Diversity increased with the addition of other people groups:. African slaves grew in number with the slave trade from 1663 until their emancipation in 1838. The British remained the dominant majority until Portuguese Jews who had been left behind by the Spanish. British: within its first 100 years as a British colony thousands of British immigrants arrived in the island, and made up the white population along with. The population over the past 350 years has been comprised of: The indigenous Indians had been killed by the Spaniards. Jamaica was a British colony from the time of its conquest by the English 1655-1660 from the Spaniards, until it gained its independence in 1962 and became a part of the British Commonwealth. There is information on immigration and on slavery. The site contains transcriptions from various documents including nineteenth century Jamaica Almanacs (which list property owners and civil and military officials), Jamaica Directories for 1878, 18, extractions from Jamaican Church records, Civil Registration, Wills, Jewish records, and excerpts from newspapers, books, and other documents. This is a virtual genealogy library for those researching family history for Jamaica, West Indies, especially for people born before 1920. 
Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library- home page Jamaican Family Search GENEALOGY RESEARCH LIBRARY
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