29,525
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Records
== 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 includes the admission books for the Ceylon Rifles and Gun Lascars for the period May 1868-Sept 1876. Personal data may also be held amongst the National Archive's Administrative Records of [[Ceylon]] (Sri Lanka).
*''Ceylon Government Gazettes'' may be a source of information and are available at the National Archives in the series [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C4249 CO 58] 1813-1946. Some editions are available online, refer below.
*Some birth marriage and death information in respect of civil registration from 1867 may be obtained by writing to Registrar General's Office, New Secretariat, Maligawatta, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka.
:FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search Catalogue Search], using keyword Sri Lanka contains multiple records from digitised microfilms from the Registrar General's Office, arranged according to Registration Division, then District. The language for most of these is categorised as Sinhalese and Tamil, although the Notes indicate some records may be in English. However, of the sample records viewed, no English records were seen, although the complete files may be very large, so there could be records in English included.
*In Holland, located in the same building as the National Archives at The Hague but a separate organization, is the 'Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie' (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG) , the Dutch information and documentation centre for genealogy, family history and related sciences. Researchers visiting this centre found some copies of records relating to British era Ceylon christenings, 1804 to 1840.<ref> Andresen, Larry & Coreen [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/srilanka.rootsweb.com/thread/4877182/ British Ceylon christening records in The Hague] ''Rootsweb Srilanka Mailing List'', 01 January 2007 and [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/srilanka.rootsweb.com/thread/4837756/ 02 January 2007] Retrieved 19 January 2019.</ref>
*See [[General Register Office]], UK. Also includes information about records such as British Consular Returns, including online sources.
*See [[Chaplains Returns]] for British Army and (some) RAF personnel and their families.
*See The Kabristan Archives, [[Ceylon#External links|External links]], below. Search for free, baptismal, marriage and burial records, and pay to obtain full details.
=== FamilySearch (LDS) Records===
