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*[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/china/guidesources/ China: Sources in the India Office Records] Guide to records at the [[British Library]]
*''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the [[British Library]]. 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)
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==Records==
*See [[General Register Office]], UK
*[https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History, (and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol, refer External links below). The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927073?region=China FamilySearch: Indexed Historical Records: China]. See [[FamilySearch]] for more about this free website.
:There are some records for China <ref>[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/World_Miscellaneous_Births_and_Baptisms,_Coverage_Table_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records) World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms, Coverage Table (FamilySearch Historical Records)] FamilySearch Wiki. Retrieved 24 March 2017.</ref> in the [[IGI#India records|"World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch]] (source unspecified) which may be accessed through the following links:''' [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1783956 World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms], [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1809045 World Miscellaneous Marriages], [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1809046 World Miscellaneous Deaths and Burials]'''.
*Refer online [[Hong Kong]] newspapers, a free database, for birth, marriage and death notices.
*For those with access, (refer below) there may be birth, marriage and death notices in online newspapers which are part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection and Japan Times Archives.
*Refer ''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast Family History 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the [[British Library]]. 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).*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160322052706/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/china/guidesources/index.html China: Sources in External links belowthe India Office Records] Guide to records at the [[British Library]], now an archived webpage.
*Refer Historical books online, below.
===Japan===
*British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA) has published
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihaiwei_under_British_rule Weihaiwei under British rule] Wikipedia.
*[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/ Chinese Maritime Customs project] University of Bristol. Includes
**[httphttps://www.bristolchinafamilies.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors/ net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History]. Hints for "locating details about foreign residents in the Chinese treaty ports (excluding Hong Kong). As well as pointing to the location of various public records (probate details, marriage, birth and death registers) it contains a number of cemetery lists and other lists culled from public records and printed sources". Includes a searchable Burial Listalso see above.
**[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/papers/occasionalpaper5.pdf ''The Chinese Maritime Customs: An International Service, 1854-1950''] by B. E. Foster Hall, sometime Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs. The Chinese Maritime Customs Project. Occasional Papers: No. 5. A reproduction of the text of B. E. Foster Hall’s history of his former service, the Chinese Maritime Customs, published by the National Maritime Museum in 1977.
*[http://visualisingchina.net Visualising China 1850-1950]. Associated with the University of Bristol. Access to more than 8000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950. **Contains a link to [https://hpchina-prodwww.rithpcbristol.bris.ac.uk/about net Historical Photographs of China], also associated with the University of Bristol.Incorporates the previous website "Visualising China 1850-1950"
**Also contains a Blog category.
***[http://visualisingchina.net/blog/2013/08/19/who-took-the-photographs/ Who took the photographs?] by Robert Bickers August 19, 2013
[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/2364978 1889 FamilySearch]
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*[https://archive.org/details/chinawhoswho1922 ''The China Who's Who 1922: A Biographical Dictionary''] compiled and published by Carroll Lunt. 1922 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918''] Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
*[https://www.brischinafamilies.ac.uknet/history/customs/ancestorsdirectories/directories.html Online Directories] Chinese Maritime Customs Project from China Families, University of Bristol: Department of History.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4QkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Reports from Committees: Mortality of Troops (China)''] Session 1 February-10 August 1866 Volume XV. Ordered to be printed by The House of Commons 24 July 1866. Google Books.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023927977 ''British Parliamentary Papers: Mortality of Troops in China 1863 and 1866''] Reprinted 1915 Archive.org
