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For general details about FamilySearch (LDS) records, including microfilms, see [[FamilySearch]].
FamilySearch database '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District, Dutch Reformed church records, 1677-1990''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1780708 catalogue entry]. Click though to transcribed '''indexesindex records''' and film images. The indexes may also be located through the FamilySearch Records page [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927054?region=Sri%20Lanka Sri Lanka]. Note, it appears not all images have been indexed. For hints searching these images see [[IGI#India records|FamilySearch - India records]].
The North Parramatta Family History Centre in Sydney, Australia previously had the detailed indexes to the Baptisms and Marriages at the Dutch Reformed Church at Wolfendaal, Colombo, up to 1897. These were not FamilySearch microfilms but were spiral bound photocopies made from the journals and indexes at Victor Melder's Sri Lankan Library<ref>[https://www.vmsl-library.com/index.php Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library in Melbourne]</ref> in Melbourne. '''Update''' October 2019. Parramatta FHC appears to have closed, see
[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search Search] the FamilySearch catalogue, using Keywords such as Ceylon, Sri Lanka, and filtering by Availability online, and language. There are many databases available classified as English language, of records from the Registrar-General's Department where the notes indicate the language to be “Sinhalese, English, Tamil”. Of a sample of records viewed, no records in English were sighted.
====Also see====
*Historical books online below. As an example Inscriptions.
