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*The FamilySearch website contains some databases which are browsable collections of images, which have not been indexed, which are of church registers in India and Ceylon, refer [[Church records#Online records and transcriptions|above]].
* See [[Cemeteries]] for details of monumental inscriptions in books, including books available online.
*''Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'', available at the [[British Library]] has lists of baptisms, marriages and burials based on the original church registers in Calcutta, up to 1800. They are probably mostly covered by the Ecclesiastical Returns in the B.L.[[British Library]], however there may be some additional entries which never made it to England (e.g. the ship carrying the returns to England was lost). :Transcriptions from Registers of St John's, Calcutta by E W Madge as they appeared in ''Bengal Past and Present''. Each listing contains many pages of biographical notes. Some articles Articles are available online, on the Archive.org, most being mirrors of files originally from Digital Library of India website, or through the mirror editions on Archive.org. Other articles are available at the [[British Library]]. '''Note''': Records for Baptisms 1767-1777 have been transcribed and are available on the [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1979&s_id=1064&sort=0&st=0&np=14&tn=412 FIBIS database] in the category Publications.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.134759/2015.134759.Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-june#page/n351/mode/2up Baptisms 1713-1758] BPP Volume XXI, pp 143-159. Archive.org/DLI
:*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.31275/page/n409/mode/2up Baptisms 1759-1766 ] BPP Volume V, pp 325-332. Archive.org, Archaeological Survey of India Collection.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501554/2015.501554.Bengal-Past#page/n383/mode/2up Baptisms 1767 -1777] BPP Volume XXV, January-June 1923, pp 130-155, Archive.org/DLI
:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501554/2015.501554.Bengal-Past#page/n167/mode/2up Baptisms 1778-1782] BPP Volume XXVI 1923, pp 142-168. Archive.org/DLI
:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.134759/2015.134759.Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-june#page/n285/mode/2up Marriages 1781-1800 (Supplementary Register)] BBP Volume XXI, pp 76-141. Archive.org/DLI.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32665/2015.32665.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol10#page/n83/mode/2up Burials 1713-1755] BPP Volume X, Jan-June 1915, Serial Nos 19-20, pp 257-284 . Archive.org/DLI.
:*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.31275/page/n167/mode/2up Burials 1759-1761 ] BBP Volume V, pp 136-142Archive.org, Archaeological Survey of India Collection.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500675/2015.500675.Bengal-Past#page/n141/mode/2up Burials 1762-1774] BBP Volume VI 1910, pp 92-126. Archive.org/DLI.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501558/2015.501558.Bengal-Past#page/n147/mode/2up Burials 1775-81] BPP Volume 31 (Jan-Jun 1926) pages 130-156. Archive.org/DLI.
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