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***There are some church records for Malta available at the [[London Metropolitan Archives]]
***[https://www.deceasedonline.com deceased online], a website which is free to search but pay to view, has some records for military burials in Malta, also Egypt and Cyprus. These records are described as "Selected pieces from the National Archives WO 156/103-122'", which are "UK and overseas garrisons; Registers of burials". For more details, from the deceased online Home Page, select 'Coverage' and scroll down to " “The National Archives - Military Burials” date added: 12 Dec 2013". Also includes records from the National Archives series ADM 6, ADM 73, ADM 305.
***Details of [https://web.archive.org/web/20180723040408/http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/malta2.html Malta Registers at The National Archives] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20180723040404/http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/malta1.html Registers in Class ADM]. Includes B, M, B. (Note: (selected) burials are now available online, refer above). Alan McGowan’s "Garrison Church Registers", now an archived website.**Gibraltar*** Gibraltar National Archives now has a Search facility for free transcriptions of [http://www.nationalarchives.gi/gna/ArchonMilitaryBDM.aspx Military Births, Deaths and Marriages in Gibraltar 1869-1914], based on records from the Gibraltar Civil Register office. Note a previous comment that a certificate obtained in Gibraltar, from the Registrar of Births and Deaths of Gibraltar, contained additional information to the certificate obtained from the [[GRO]] <ref> aitch2o [http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic12548.html Info ommitted from GRO supplied birth cert] ''Who Do You Think You Are? Forum'' 21 November 2015, and later posts. Retrieved 5 December 2015.</ref>. **:FamilySearch catalogue entry [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/440722 Civil registration, 1848-1990] from the "Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Gibraltar", with most of the records digitised microfilm viewable on your home computer.***[https:[//web.archive.org/web/20150915051406/http://www.iukgenweb.org/index.php/british-overseas-territoriesBritish Overseas Territories/2013-01-11-23-52-16 select Gibraltar] from Ireland & United KingdomGenWeb, now an archived website. Select Articles/ ‘Cemetery Records ' for burial records from King’s Chapel (Witham’s Cemetery). Where an occupation is shown, the burials appear to be of British Army soldiers, and seamen. Select ‘Military Records’ for transcriptions by Donald Brett<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141113092755/http://www.iukgenweb.org/gibraltar/articles.php?cat_id=3 Gibraltar WorldGenWeb Project], now an archived webpage</ref> of the Gibraltar Indexes for the Chaplains Returns for Deaths and Marriages (to 1880). The Gibraltar Chaplains Returns Indexes for Births have been transcribed separately by Donald Brett [http://www.docser.com/file/army-chaplains-returns-births-1796-1880-rootschat-51f1246d docser.com version] or [http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=527081.0;attach=225043 rootschat.com download version]- depending on your browser, you may need to locate this in your downloads folder. As above(Full records, full in respect of these Index records may be obtained from , are available at the GRO). *: ** [[IGI|FamilySearch]] has some additional records for Gibraltar- See [[General Register Office#External links|General Register Office-External links]] for details.***[[findmypast]] includes a group of records from Gibraltar, some baptisms, marriages and burials from St Andrew's Kirk, which appear to be related to the military, or seamen, and some marriage indexes supplied by FamilySearch. From the Search, select A-Z of record sets, then use Search term Gibraltar to locate the record databases.
**Egypt had compulsory civil registration for births and deaths from 1912 for all, including foreigners. <ref> [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/isp/013_the_develop_of_the_vital_stat_system_in_egypt.pdf The Development of the Vital Statistics System in Egypt] by Gamal Askar January 1981.</ref> [https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Egypt_Genealogy Egypt Genealogy] FamilySearch Wiki.
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