Jamaica images still unavailable
Whenever I revisit previous documents in this catalog to gather extra information, they are now unavailable images. Please advise. See collection information and example Screenshot JPG below. Thank you.
Collection Information
Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1878-2000
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Cite This Record
"Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1878-2000", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNZ8-D2N : Sun Nov 09 06:27:59 UTC 2025),
Answers
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It appears that recent changes in laws have required changes to permissions to view the material you are looking for. It is recommended that you keep trying to view this material in hopes that the rules will change to once again allow full viewing of the requested material. It is possible you may still find the image you are looking for on other platforms, such as Ancestry, or FindMyPast, etc. You can also try contacting the original Archive holding the information that are posted in the catalog record.
Registrar General's Office
Twickenham Park, St. Catherine
Telephone: 876-749-0550876-619-1260
Email: information@rgd .gov.jm0 -
@SerraNola can you clarify the access position re these images please? Thanks.
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@VWalton894 FamilySearch has recently updated its compliance and contract requirements for Jamaica. In the past, records created or published before a certain date were not affected by new restrictions (“grandfathered in”); these exemptions have now been removed. As a result, civil registration records for births after 1895 and marriages after 1920 are no longer available. While this change does make tracing ancestors more challenging, our aim is to provide broader access to these records in the future.
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Thank you for the update/explanation. I was about to write and protest. 🤣
That is so disheartening. Thank God I saved some of them the 1st time! I'm more annoyed that I may have missed some downloads and did not pay attention to writings in the margins of the ones I didn't save, etc. and needed to see them again.
But anybody starting from scratch right now might be heavily at a loss. The records sometimes don't transcribe everything from the document, or transcribes some things incorrectly.
#sigh
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This is super disappointing!! The images are so vital because the transcriptions are woefully incomplete and with errors - in particular with regard to place names (likely due to the inability for the record indexing to accommodate Jamaican order of place names (hamlet, village, town/city, registration district, civil parish, country). For a country with no family census, the additional info of village name, informants and witnesses helped connect family. Contacting the Registrar General's Office in Jamaica is pretty useless as they had a cyber attack in August and whole website, phone etc is still not accessible and they are essentially communicating through Facebook. Add in being overwhelmed with replacement certificate requests due to Hurricane and I don't expect much from their end. Hope FamilySearch can negotiate a new deal!
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