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:[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/catalog/?limitToCountry=0 Ancestry Card Catalogue of all Record Databases] (located as an option under the Search tab). Search by name of country.
*Birth, marriage and death notices in Newspapers and Journals. See [[Newspapers and journals online]] and links included on that page. including [[Newspapers]]. An example is ''The London and China Telegraph'', published in London, available online from 1860 to 1875, which included notices in respect of China, and the general area east of India, but a few deaths were noticed for India, and one noticed for Alexandria.
*The [https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org Lambeth Palace Library, London], the principal repository of the documentary history of the Church of England, holds some limited overseas registers and transcripts including Mesopotamia (Iraq), Sudan, China as set out on pages 5-6 of [https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/sites/default/files/family_history.pdf "Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide Sources for Family History and Genealogy"]. Some/all? the records for [[China]] are available on FamilySearch microfilm, catalogue entries [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/76774 A], [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/76759 B] and [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/76781 C], however only the first is available as digitised microfilm (restricted to [[FamilySearch Centres]] and FS affiliate libraries) and the other two must be viewed as microfilm, either at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, or and the second was also previously noted to be available at the [[Society of Genealogists]] in London, although this information is no longer seen on the FS catalogue entry.
:The records for Mesopotamia include
:MS 2503-2507 Registers of St. Peter's church, Basra 1934-1968. MS 2669-2676 Registers for Mesopotamia (Iraq) 1883-1972, which in turn includes MS 2669 General register of baptisms in Mesopotamia, 1916-22, and in St. George's church, Baghdad, 1922-8. C.M.S. and civil chaplaincy baptisms are entered from 1921, and Royal Air Force baptisms from 1926; MS 2672 General register of marriages in Mesopotamia (including Baghdad), 1917-1928. Civil marriages are registered from 1922.
*Comments about [https://archive.org/details/registrumecclesi00burnrich/page/240 "The registers of Persons Baptised etc Abroad: [mainly Europe<nowiki>]</nowiki>"] page 240 ''Registrum ecclesiae parochialis : the history of parish registers in England : also of the registers of Scotland, Ireland, the East and West Indies...'' by John Southerden Burn 2nd edition 1862 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/tracingyourances0000unse/page/64/mode/2up "Births, marriages and deaths of Britons overseas and at sea"] Chapter 4, page 65 and [https://archive.org/details/tracingyourances0000unse/page/153/mode/2up "Britons abroad: in foreign countries and in the Empire"] Chapter 13 page 153 ''Tracing your ancestors in the Public Record Office'' by Amanda Bevan, Sixth Edition 2002, published by the (now) National Archives. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. There was a 7th edition published in 2006 ''Tracing your ancestors in the National Archives''.
:Includes [https://archive.org/details/tracingyourances0000unse/page/74/mode/2up Section 4.15 "Tables of overseas birth, marriage and death records in the PRO" [TNA<nowiki>]</nowiki> [by country<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 74. By looking at the constituent records for the Findmypast and Ancestry databases above, you can determine whether the records of interest to you are available online.
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