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[https://familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffamilysearch.org%2Frecords%2Fwaypoint%2F5483405%3Fcc%3D1780708 '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-1990'''] are available with images online on the [https://familysearch.org/ familysearch website] This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-02/1297851646 post] gives some hints for browsing these images. The LDS Library Catalogue contains these entries for keyword search [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=Sri+Lanka+Church&prekeyword=Sri+Lanka+Church Sri Lanka Church] and [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=Sri+Lanka+Registrar&prekeyword=Sri+Lanka+Registrar Sri Lanka Registrar].
*[https://www.facebook.com/OldeCeylon Old Ceylon] on Facebook
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== Records ==
Except for the few short years when the East India Company was in control (1796-1802) records for Ceylon will not be found in the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]], but at [[The National Archives]] at Kew. For example, the description and succession books of the Ceylon Rifles covering years 1809-1872 are held under reference W025/638-641 (these include officers services) and reference WO23/158 finds includes the admission books for rhe the Ceylon Rifles and Gun Lascars for the period May 1868-Sept 1876. Personal data may also be held amongst the National Archive's [http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/tracingasianroots/ceylon.htm Administrative Records of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)] - per movinghere.org
Some birth marriage and death information may be obtained by writing to Registrar General's Office, New Secretariat, Maligawatta, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka.
===LDS Records===
For general details about LDS records, including microfilms, refer see [[IGI]].
The North Parramatta [[Family History Centres|Family History Centre]] in Sydney, Australia has the detailed indexes to the Baptisms and Marriages at the Dutch Reformed Church at Wolfendaal, Colombo, up to 1897. These are not LDS microfilms but are spiral bound photocopies made from the journals and indexes at Victor Melder's Sri Lankan Library in Melbourne.
===Cemetery Records=FIBIS Resources==
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=267 Monumental Inscriptions from Columbo Cemetery, Ceylon] FIBIS Database
*[http://wwwsearch.archivefibis.org/streamfrontis/cu31924007648516#page/n7bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode/2up =browse_dataset&id=1623&s_id=975 ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated''] by J Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org. The information from this book has now been transcribed and is available on the [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1623&s_id=975 in FIBIS Database] ==FIBIS Resources==database
*[[:Category:Ceylon images|Images of Ceylon]]
== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon] Wikipedia
*[https://familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffamilysearch.org%2Frecords%2Fwaypoint%2F5483405%3Fcc%3D1780708 Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-1990] Familysearch
*[http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/tracingasianroots/ceylon.htm Administrative Records of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)] - movinghere.org
*[http://www.almarteas.com/tea_history.html History of Ceylon Tea] almarteas.com
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/ The Virtual Library of Sri Lanka] has a section "History", which in turn has a section "Colonial History, The British in Lanka (1796-1948)"
**''Anglican Burials 1909-19 Colombo General Cemetery'' by Eileen Hewson
**''Protestant Marriages Nuwara Eliya Ceylon'' by Eileen Hewson
*[http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea] includes many [http://www.historyofceylontea.com/Browse/browse-our-archives.asp online publications] including [http://www.historyofceylontea.com/Fe_Browse/fergusons-directories.asp Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories] from 1871 to 1930 (broken range). For Ferguson’s Directories, this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-05/1306396281 post] advises "In the index on the left hand side look for an entry marked (usually) General Directory (towards the bottom) and then click on a page to see the contents".
*[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/under/research.html Under a Tropical Sun] (Macquarie University) covers 1796-1821. Includes the historical background and contemporary accounts of the Officers of the [[73rd Regiment of Foot]] (and their families) in Ceylon 1814-21.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20081226233214/http://www.gol27.com/HistoryTeaCeylon.html History of Tea in Ceylon], an archived site.
* Photographs: [http://www.imagesofceylon.com/cover.htm Images of Ceylon]
*[http://www.angloboerwar.com/indian-units/1990-ceylon-mounted-infantry Ceylon Mounted Infantry in the Boer War] AngloBoerWar.com
===Historical books online===
