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*See External links below for the Searchable databases on the website ''China Families''.
*See External links below for the Searchable database ''The Carl Smith Collection'' at the Government Records Service/Public Records Office. Note, some or all of this collection is available as images on FamilySearch.
*The Government Records Service/Public Records Office holds some original church registers for baptisms and marriages from St John's Cathedral. See External links below for the website ''Gwulo: Old Hong Kong'' which holds some brief records, also including deaths, for the period 1897- April 1931 from the Cathedral magazine.
*FamilySearch Research page [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927198?region=Hong%20Kong Hong Kong] for Historical Records. However, some records are classified as China records and it may be clearer to find records directly from the Catalog specifically for Hong Kong, see following item.
*FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes
*''Second to None : the Story of the Hong Kong Volunteers'' by Phillip Bruce 1991. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01012596174
==External links==
*[http://files.lib.byu.edu/family-history-library/research-outlines/Asia/HongKong.pdf “Major Genealogical Record Sources in Hong Kong”] by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Series J, No. 4 1975. lib.byu.edu. Refers to Civil Registration. "Records prior to 1873 no longer exist". "All pre-war marriage records have been lost". '''Note''' however, the appear to be some surviving church records.
**[http://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/contactus/index.html Immigration Department contact details]. This Department is responsible for Civil Registration but the website does not include information about certificates for family history purposes for persons not resident in Hong Kong, so you would need to contact the Department.
*Hong Kong [https://www.grs.gov.hk/en/index.html Government Records Service] grs.gov.hk. Archives and Library with an online catalogue. Also known as the Public Records Office (PRO), Hong Kong.
**[https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarladv.xhtml Search the Carl Smith Collection] of 140,000 index cards. In respect of these records, the website ''China Families'' advises "The cards contain information about residents not only in the former British colony, but across China. The catalogue does now allow you to view cards, but they are small in size, and the search results are often very numerous".
*:Some or all of these records are available on FamilySearch on your home computers, refer Records above.
**Government Records Service, in the Archives section, holds some original church registers from St John's Anglican Church/Cathedral. Use the [https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searcharcadv.xhtml Archives Search] to find the catalogue entries, with more details. Note, the actual records are '''not''' available online. The records include
***Record ID HKMS37 Indexes to Registers of Baptism. The indexes relate to baptisms recorded in the relevant registers of the British Chapel Macao, 1838-1887, and of St John's Cathedral, 1887-1928.
***Record ID HKMS36 Registers of Baptisms 1838-1973. The records prior to 1842 are for Macao.
***Record ID HKMS38 Registers of Baptisms, St Peter's Seaman's Church 1873 – 1932
***Record ID HKMS40 Registers of Marriage 1838 – 1975. The series relates to the registration of marriages solemnised at the British Chapel, Macao (1838-1841) and the Anglican Church/Cathedral, Hong Kong (1843-1975).
***For some brief records from St John's Cathedral, see the ''Gwulo: Old Hong Kong'' website below.
*Newspapers, including online
**[https://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/index.html Hong Kong Public Libraries]
**[http://gwulo.com/hong-kong-cemeteries Cemeteries in Hong Kong]
***details of an [http://gwulo.com/node/8734 online database of the 6,000+ burials in the Hong Kong Cemetery]. For the database, see [[Hong Kong#Records|Records]] above.
**[https://gwulo.com/node/7495 St John's Cathedral Records] transcribed from copies of the Cathedral ''Review'' magazine 1897- April 1931. Also read the Comments for some extra baptismal records. The Government Records Service, also known as the PRO, holds original church registers for baptisms and marriages, see above.
**[https://gwulo.com/atom/27872 [Plan of<nowiki>]</nowiki> Stanley Military Cantonment 1853]
*[https://www.hkmemory.hk/ Hong Kong Memory] Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Hong Kong Government. “Hong Kong Memory (HKM) is a multi-media web site that gives free and open access to digitized materials on Hong Kong’s history, culture and heritage”. Includes
