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Country
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US
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
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Contact information: phone number
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001 513 487 3000
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Reference number
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MS-465
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Jamaican Vital Statistics Collection
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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American Jewish Archives
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Date(s)
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1786/1950
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Language(s)
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dut
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eng
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fra
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heb
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Extent
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3 boxes
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Good
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Scope and content
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This collection comprises copies of birth, marriage, death, circumcision and other vital records from the Jewish communities of Jamaica and Saint Thomas. The bulk of the collection consists of 19th-century documentation, but it also includes a few late-18th-century records, some related to Sephardim. The collection contains the following materials:
Box 1:
- folder 1: Birth registrations (Jamaica), 1786-1846;
- folder 2: Ashkenazic Congregation (Kingston, Jamaica), 1788-1845;
- folder 3: Ashkenazic Congregation (Kingston, Jamaica), 1804-1844;
- folder 4: Birth records: English and German Synagogue (Kingston, Jamaica), 1809-1841;
- folder 5: Graves registration (Kingston, Jamaica), 1809-1850;
- folder 6: Marriage records (Kingston, Jamaica): includes a few 18th-century records;
- folder 7: Birth records (St. Thomas), 1796-1837;
- folder 8: Confirmation and birth records (St. Thomas), undated. Mirrored copies;
- folder 9: Birth, marriage, and death records (St. Thomas), undated. Mirrored copies;
- folder 10: Death records (St. Thomas), 1852-1949;
- folder 11: Marriage records (St. Thomas), 1840-1869.
Box 2:
- folder 1: Marriage records (St. Thomas), 1841-1869;
- folder 2: Marriage records (St. Thomas), 1841-1869;
- folder 3: Marriage and birth records (St. Thomas): typescript list compiled by Malcolm H. Stern of marriage records from 1841 to 1869, and a few birth certifications dating from 1853, 1871 and 1914;
- folder 4: Birth, marriage, and death records (St. Thomas), 19th century. Mirrored copies;
- folder 5: Birth, marriage, and death records (St. Thomas), 19th century. Mirrored copies;
- folder 6: Birth records (Jamaica?), 1852-1945;
- folder 7: Birth records (Jamaica?), 1912-1950;
- folder 8: Birth records (St Thomas?), 19th century. Several mirrored copies;
- folder 9: Circumcision records (St. Thomas), most records are undated, but the few dated ones are from the 1800s-1820s.
Box 3:
- folder 1: Death records, 1796-1824 (French);
- folder 2: Marriage records (Jamaica?), 1852-1949 (several records are undated);
- folder 3: Unspecified records (Jamaica), undated. Mirrored copies;
- folder 4: Birth records (St Thomas?), 19th-20th centuries;
- folder 5: Birth records (St Thomas?), 19th century. Includes a birth certificate of Camilo Duran Bueno issued by the Civil Registry of Costa Rica on November 6, 1900, and some miscellaneous records related to Jamaican Jewish communities;
- folders 6 and 7: Birth records (Jamaica), 19th century. Mirrored copies;
- folder 8: Marriage and birth records (Jamaica), 19th century. Mirrored copies.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The American Jewish Archives (AJA) resulted from the initiative of the historian Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995). In 1947, Marcus persuaded the President of the Hebrew Union College (HUC), Nelson Glueck (1900-71), to authorise the establishment of the AJA in the original library building of HUC in Cincinnati, Ohio. Glueck appointed Jacob Rader Marcus as director, Rabbi Bertram W. Korn (1918-79) as associate director, and Selma Stern-Teubler (1890-1981) as archivist. The AJA was founded with the aim of collecting, preserving, and making available for research materials on the history of Jews and Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere, in particular in America. Therefore, over its history, the AJA has sought to obtain records of congregations and Jewish organisations, genealogical materials, papers of rabbis, and key figures in American Jewish history, among other Jewish-related materials. Since 1948, the AJA has published a semi-annual journal, The American Jewish Archives Journal, which is one of the major referred periodicals on American Jewish history.
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2022
