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*[http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/British_Births,_Marriages_and_Deaths_Overseas British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas] Family Search Wiki
*[http://levantineheritage.com/regist1.htm Levantine Heritage: Registers] levantineheritage.com. Retrieved 2 October 2014. The term “Levantines” designates primarily those Europeans and Americans who settled in the Levant - a region generally conterminous with the Ottoman Empire - from the early 17th century until 1923.
:FamilySearch catalogue entry microfilm 1999050, items 8-9, Church of England [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/762275 Parish registers and notes, 1763-1959: Izmir, previously Smyrna, Turkey], from the London Metropolitan Archives (previously Guildhall Library).
*[https://www.deceasedonline.com deceased online], a website which is free to search but pay to view, has some records for military burials in Malta, also Egypt and Cyprus. For more details, from the deceased online Home Page, select Coverage and scroll down to " “The National Archives - Military Burials” date added: 12 Dec 2013". Includes records from the National Archives series ADM 6, ADM 73, ADM 305 and WO 156.
*[http://maltafamilyhistory.com Malta Family History]. Includes data for births, marriages and burials. Also includes data about other areas such as the Ionian Islands, including Corfu and has a section called "Other Mediterranean Cemeteries" which includes Gibraltar and Smyrna, Turkey. The Smyrna database also includes baptisms and marriages (1795 – 1832)
**Details of [http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/malta2.html Malta Registers at The National Archives] and [http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/malta1.html Registers in Class ADM]. Includes B, M, B. (Note: (selected) burials are now available online, refer above). Alan McGowan’s "Garrison Church Registers".
*[https://secure2.gov.mt/certifikati/Department.aspx Malta Public Registry] The Public Registry was set up on the 3rd August 1889 although the records date back to 1863. Records kept at the Public Registry include births, marriages and deaths. Transcript copies are available for a fee, and can be ordered online. Government of Malta website.
*Links to FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=103&query=%2Bplace%3AMalta%20%2Bavailability%3AOnline catalogue entries] for microfilms and digitised microfilms, relating to Malta, some available on your home computer. Also [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2822596 additional microfilms for Gozo], not currently included in the Search result.
*Gibraltar
** Gibraltar National Archives now has a Search facility for free transcriptions of [http://www.nationalarchives.gi/gna/ArchonMilitaryBDM.aspx Military Births, Deaths and Marriages in Gibraltar 1869-1914], based on records from the Gibraltar Civil Register office. Note a previous comment that a certificate obtained in Gibraltar, from the Registrar of Births and Deaths of Gibraltar, contained additional information to the certificate obtained from the [[GRO]] <ref> aitch2o [http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic12548.html Info ommitted from GRO supplied birth cert] ''Who Do You Think You Are? Forum'' 21 November 2015, and later posts. Retrieved 5 December 2015.</ref>. There is also a Search for [http://www.nationalarchives.gi/gna/Inhabitants.aspx Gibraltar Inhabitants 1704-1914], based on transcriptions of Census data.
**[https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/new/civil-status-registration-office Civil Status and Registration Office, Government of Gibraltar]
**[http://www.iukgenweb.org/index.php/british-overseas-territories/2013-01-11-23-52-16 Gibraltar] from Ireland & United KingdomGenWeb. Select ‘Cemetery Records' for burial records from King’s Chapel (Witham’s Cemetery). Where an occupation is shown, the burials appear to be of British Army soldiers, and seamen. Select ‘Military Records’ for transcriptions by Donald Brett<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141113092755/http://www.iukgenweb.org/gibraltar/articles.php?cat_id=3 Gibraltar WorldGenWeb Project], now an archived webpage</ref> of the Gibraltar Indexes for the Chaplains Returns for Deaths and Marriages (to 1880). The Gibraltar Chaplains Returns Indexes for Births have been transcribed separately by Donald Brett: [http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=527081.0;attach=225043 rootschat.com download] - depending on your browser, you may need to locate this in your downloads folder. (Full records, in respect of these Index records, are available at the GRO).
**[[IGI|FamilySearch]] has a catalogue entry [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/440722 Civil registration, 1848-1990] from the "Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Gibraltar" , with most of the records viewable on your home computer. Includes Card Indexes. Also a catalogue entry [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/112535 Anglican Chaplaincy, Gibraltar, christenings, 1807- 1812 Microfilm 883701] and a similar entry for marriages. These records have been transcribed and may be browsed by using “Batch Number” C-89999-1 and M-89999-1 in the “Search Historical Records” on the FamilySearch website. In addition there are some [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1770864 Gibraltar Baptisms 1704- 1876] index records, at least some/(all?) of which are Roman Catholic records transcribed from microfilm 1729828. Also [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1770887 Gibraltar Marriages, 1879-1918] index records, at least some/(all?) of which are Roman Catholic records transcribed from microfilm 1738755. There are also microfilms for Roman Catholic records available for additional periods, and also for burials, [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/459422 catalogue entry]. *:See the Fibiwiki page [[FamilySearch Centres]] for information about microfilms and digitised microfilms.
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