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*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 the second at the [[Society of Genealogists]] in London.
: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.
*There are some overseas records at the [[London Metropolitan Archives]].
*See [[Cemeteries]] for websites including [[BACSA]], Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Find A Grave, BillionGraves.
*Records at the General Register Office and The National Archives for Statutory Returns, including Consular Returns, and all the records covered by the GRO Indexes, '''may not include records of persons originating from Scotland and Ireland''', and records must be looked for in Scotland and Ireland. For more details, see the FamilySearch Wiki article below. Online sources include ScotlandsPeople, see [[Scotland]].
