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*See [[General Register Office]], UK.
*For civil registration records of birth, marriage and death records, contact the National Archives of Malaysia and/or the National Registration Department.<ref> Esslemont, Don. [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MALAYSIA/2008-03/1205835245 BMD certificates (was Robert Darwood engineer)] ''Rootsweb Malaysia Mailing List'' 18 Mar 2008, which quotes a source of information which no longer appears to be available. Retrieved 12 December 2016.</ref> There has been some registration since 1859.<ref>[https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Malaysia_Civil_Registration Malaysia Civil Registration] FamilySearch Wiki.</ref>
*Birth, marriage and death notices may have been published in Singapore newspapers. See [[Singapore#Newspapers|Singapore - Newspapers]] for details of free online Singapore newspapers.
*[[BACSA]] have published the following books:
**''Ipoh and Taiping: War Graves and Graves of Europeans in the Cemeteries in Ipoh and Taiping, Perak, Malaysia'' by Justin Corfield, 2000. 108pp, 27 illustrations and plan
**''Seremban, Malaysia: Graves in St Mark's Churchyard, and the Anglican Section of the Seremban Cemetery'' by E Beavington and Justin Corfield, 2000. 56pp, 11 illustrations
**''Teluk Anson (Malaysia): European Graves in the Jalan Anderson Cemetery'' by Justin Corfield, 2000. 20pp, 14 illustrations and plan
:For details including purchaseSome cemetery books are still available, see [http://indian-cemeteries.org/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html BACSA Books] - select Cemetery Record Books.
:[[BACSA]] have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
*''British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935)'' by Alan Harfield 1984 is available at the [[British Library]]. History of British and Indian Armies in Sumatra, Java, Sarawak, Malaya and Singapore from 1685-1935. Includes names of officers and men buried in these areas. Also includes name lists of persons in some military units which served in these areas.
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