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==History==
Founded by the Dutch East India Company, Tranquebar was a Danish colony from 1620 until 1845, when it was sold to the British. The Danish built Fort Dansborg in 1620 as the governor's residence.
==Records for Family History==
The original records for Tranquebar are housed in archives in Denmark. In addition, some details are held in a card index compiled by Kay Larsen – which up to at least the early 1980s was housed in the Rigsarkivet in Copenhagen.
===Records held outside Denmark===
* Some records can be found amongst those of the Madras Presidency – more particularly after 1845 when the colony came under British control.
* [[LDS]] film no 128836 covers registers of baptisms , marriages and burials of both the Jerusalem and Zion churches of Tranquebar during the period 1707-1818. These records were taken from the original records at Landsarkivet, Copenhagen and the microfilms can be ordered on loan and viewed at local [[Family History Centres]].
* LDS films no 39091-39092 which covers 1834 census of Tranquebar (these films are in Danish and can be accessed as above)
* ''List of marriages registered in the Danish church register of Zion church, Tranquebar, 1767-184'' by Knud Heiberg. (In the UK , this title is available in, at least, both the [[British Library]] and [[Society of Genealogists]] )
* ''List of Inscriptions on Tombs or monuments in Madras possessing historical or archaeological interest. Vol. II'' by J Cotton (1946). Includes inscriptions from the Danish Cemetery at Tranquebar and the Dutch Cemeteries at [[Masulipatam]], [[Pulicat]], and [[Sadras]]. (In the UK , this title is available in, at least, both the [[British Library]] and [[Society of Genealogists]] )
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