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*[https://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/hong_kong_cemetery/about/index.html "Hong Kong Cemetery"] Searchable and browsable database created by Ms Patricia Lim, with images. From ''Hong Kong Memory'' Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Government.
**Details of some of the inscriptions from the Ossuary<ref>[http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com/2018/ "The Ossuary"]. A series of articles by Christine M. Thomas from December 2018. Click on later dates for further pages. ''Hong Kong Cemetery''. </ref>
:For expanded cemetery details, see ''Forgotten Souls : a Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery'' by Patricia Lim c 2011. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01015724284 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iaZMzPuLAggC&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] Google Books.
*See External links below for the Searchable database on the website ''China Coast Family History''.
*FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes
:"Births, deaths, marriages from Canton and Hong Kong newspapers, arranged chronologically, 1828-1862" [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/567153 catalogue entry] microfilm 1208508, item 13, which has been digitised and may be viewed on your home computer.
*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, (Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office) thought to be available at the Public Record Office, Hong Kong, possibly as a typescript. May possibly include information about Stanley Cemetery.<ref>''Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan'' by Gotelind Müller 2018, page 16, footnote 72 and page 18, footnote 85. See [[Hong Kong#External links|External links]], above.</ref>
*The book ''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01009472436 . Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.people.ex-forces/v3LqubdrU1k link] lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484).
==Hong Kong Volunteers==
===Regimental history===
*''Second to None : the Story of the Hong Kong Volunteers'' by Phillip Bruce 1991. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01012596174
==External links==
*[http://files.lib.byu.edu/family-history-library/research-outlines/Asia/HongKong.pdf “Major Genealogical Record Sources in Hong Kong”] by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Series J, No. 4 1975. lib.byu.edu. Refers to Civil Registration. Records prior to 1873 no longer exist. All pre-war marriage records have been lost.
