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*:FamilySearch has some Civil registration digitised images, see below in the Family Search item.
**[https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/new/civil-status-registration-office Civil Status and Registration Office, Government of Gibraltar]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20150915051406/http://www.iukgenweb.org/index.php/british-overseas-territoriesBritish Overseas Territories/2013-01-11-23-52-16 select Gibraltar] from Ireland & United KingdomGenWeb, now an archived website. Select Articles/ ‘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).
**[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1926984?region=Gibraltar Indexed Historical Records: Gibraltar]. FamilySearch. You must be signed in to FamilySearch to view records. In addition, or possibly included in the previous group of indexed records, [[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.
**[[findmypast]] includes a group of records from Gibraltar, some baptisms, marriages and burials from St Andrew's Kirk, which appear to be related to the military, or seamen, and some marriage indexes supplied by FamilySearch. From the Search, select A-Z of record sets, then use Search term Gibraltar to locate the record databases.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080915122721/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/index.php?cat=1 Trace and tell your family’s Empire stories] with links to pages "Government Records of Britons in … " including
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001654/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/chapters/index.php?cat=1&country=21 Government Records of Britons in Cyprus], Cyprus was part of the Empire between 1878 and 1960. Includes reference to ''Cyprus Gazettes'' dating from 1878-1965 in the National Archives, Kew reference series CO 70.
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