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:Search the [https://familysearch.org/catalog/search FamilySearch Catalog] for additional catalogue entries, for example by using keywords Hong Kong, and filtering by English language, and selecting Availability Online. There are many databases available, including Church Registers for Birth, Marriage and Death, Cemetery Inscriptions, Will extracts, Card Files and other data from the Carl T. Smith collection etc, most of which are viewable on home computers. Also see [[FamilySearch Centres]] for changes involving microfilms.
*Refer online Hong Kong newspapers, see below, for birth, marriage and death notices.
*See Hong Kong Government Reports Online, below. A researcher advised that he found details of a relative who worked for the Hong Kong lighthouse service in these online government publications.<ref> Who Do You Think You Are? Forum thread [http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic10068.html Lighthouse keeper in the dark]</ref>The information was found in an official publication know as the ''Blue Book'' in a section "Civil Establishments of Hongkong" which lists information about Civil Servants.
*The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] holds information on both Happy Valley and Stanley cemeteries under file reference Mss Eur F370/81
*The book ''Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley'' by Solomon Bard 1997 is available at the [[British Library]] in the [[BACSA]] Archive, catalogue reference Mss Eur F370/1242 . By the same author, but not held in the BACSA Archive, ''Study of Military Graves and Monuments: Hong Kong Cemetery'' 1991, thought to be available at the Public Record Office, Hong Kong, possibly as a typescript.
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.lib.hku.hk/database/ The Universities of Hong Kong Libraries Digital Initiatives] includes
**[http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/index.jsp Hong Kong Government Reports Online 1842-1941] Click on 'Browse the titles' to see the titles available. Includes the ''Hong Kong Government Gazette''1842-1941 and the ''Blue Book'' 1871-1940. ([https://gwulo.com/hong-kong-blue-books Details of ''Blue Books''] gwulo.com.) Earlier editions of the ''Blue Books of Statistics'' are available at the National Archives, Kew record series CO 133, commencing with CO 133/1, for 1844.
**[http://bamboo.lib.hku.hk/HKWest/HKWest.htm Hong Kong & the West until 1860] [http://bamboo.lib.hku.hk/HKWest/HKWest.asp?page=1&TEXT1=b_all Browse the titles]
**'''Restricted access'''. Online books are available at the website China Through Western Eyes , from the same source. Covers the period until 1911, although the date of publication may be later. Includes titles about missionary work. Unfortunately this database is no longer publicly available.
