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Once the senior naval personnel were processed at a prisoner of war facility, most of these personnel were sent to a parole station. Besides the four parole stations listed above, there were also two other locations at Ashburton and Reading in England where the records have not survived. The officers were issued certificates of parole which permitted them to live away from the prisoner of war facilities until they were either exchanged for a British officer or sent home at war's end. There are a total of 1,234 names recorded in the four ledgers for Dartmouth, Halifax, Jamaica and Odiham.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson is a lineal descendant of five veterans of the War of 1812 and he is the past president of the Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Ohio (2008-2011). 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Those interned included American marines, merchantmen and sailors. Information is grouped by location: Bermuda lists 2,875 prisoners; Cape of Good Hope lists 296 prisoners; and Jamaica lists 1,553 prisoners. An alphabetical listing of names, a numeric listing by prison number, a crew listing by ship, a list of Americans on British ships, a list for prisoners whose service affiliation is not known, and a list of United States Marines is included for each location. Crews of United States naval vessels incarcerated at Bermuda include the frigate USS \u003cem\u003ePresident\u003c\/em\u003e, Gunboat 160, schooner USS \u003cem\u003eAsp\u003c\/em\u003e and the sloops USS \u003cem\u003eViper\u003c\/em\u003e and USS \u003cem\u003eWasp\u003c\/em\u003e. Naval personnel imprisoned at Jamaica were from the sloop USS \u003cem\u003eVixen\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Many records are available if you know how to access the various sources through libraries and other repositories. Here you'll find hints and details on what's available and where, covering vital and church records, land patents and deeds, censuses, immigration and emigration, military records, handbooks and directories, court records, newspapers, occupations and more. The last few chapters provide a bibliography of additional references and genealogies, and a listing of useful addresses to jump-start your Jamaican research.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis updated edition guides the reader to new resources, particularly on the internet, where there are numerous sources of family history, as well as books and other materials not referred to previously. Jamaican records may contain references to American or European ancestors. Some marriages of men who served in the regiments sent from England to Jamaica are recorded in Jamaica, and first and second born children may be christened in Jamaica. English and American ships' captains, mates and ordinary seamen may be buried in Jamaica, although they never actually lived there. American Loyalists who fled to Jamaica after the American Revolution may have filtered back to the United States or joined others in Canada. Germans who first immigrated to Jamaica later settled after the 1850s in the American Midwest. English Quakers who settled in the island in the late seventeenth century removed to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century; Pennsylvania Quaker families and those in England might consider the possibility that their families made a home in Jamaica before removing to the United States. This handy guide is intended for researchers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Jamaica. It shows you what to look for, and how to make family connections. 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The compiler started extracting births, deaths, marriages and other events from the \u003cem\u003eDaily Gleaner\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper of Jamaica in 1984. Her initial genealogical research for her own family later expanded to include the names of friends' families and other acquaintances. The vital records included in this volume were taken mostly from microfilms and cover the dates from 1865-1915. Because of the way the project was initiated, this is a \"selected\" rather than an exhaustive work. There is a bias towards St. Ann Parish and Brown's Town in Jamaica, but all island events are included. Overall life on the island is reflected in the local newspaper and the variety of pieces extracted shows what is available in the newspaper of the time—a newspaper that started as an advertising sheet, with some foreign news and then developed a local flavor. 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