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More than 14,000 Barbados tombstones are indexed at the free website Caribbean Family History. Many of those cited in books below also appear on this website.

Another huge resource for obtaining images of Barbados tombstones is the website Carib Tombstones. Their mission is to digitally preserve the tombstones of our ancestors and make them available for viewing. Every tombstone in every cemetery is digitized.

Another good place to start is:

• Oliver, Vere Langford. The Monumental Inscriptions in the Churches and Churchyards of the Island of Barbados, British West Indies. London: Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 1915. Digital version at Internet Archive; FS Library Film 908155 Item 3; 1989 reprint: FS Library Book 972.981 V3m.

An earlier work, which covers many Caribbean islands, includes Barbados:

• Laurence-Archer, James. Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies from the Earliest Date with Genealogical and Historical Annotations, from Original, Local and Other Sources, Illustrative of the Histories and Genealogies of the Seventeenth Century ... London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. FS Library Film 283588; digital versions at DLOC; Internet Archive - both free.

Military Cemetery

For burials at the military cemetery, see:

• Gleadall, Mary E. Monumental Inscriptions in the Barbados Military Cemetery. Barbados: M. Gleadall, 2000. FS Library Book 972.981 V3g.

Jewish Cemeteries

Shilstone's work includes abstracts and translations of Jewish monuments dating back to the seventeenth century. He annotated the data with Jewish synagogue burial records:

• Shilstone, Eustace M. Monumental Inscriptions in the Burial Ground of the Jewish Synagogue at Bridgetown, Barbados. [New York, N.Y.]: American Jewish Historical Society, [1956]. FS Library Book 972.981/B1 V3s.

The HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library website maintains images of Bridgetown's Beth Hain Cemetery.