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:For expanded cemetery details, see ''Forgotten Souls : a Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery'' by Patricia Lim c 2011. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01015724284 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iaZMzPuLAggC&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] Google Books.
*See External links below for the Searchable database on the website ''China Families''.
*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
:"Births, deaths, marriages from Canton and Hong Kong newspapers, arranged chronologically, 1828-1862" [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/567153 catalogue entry] microfilm 1208508, item 13, which has been digitised and may be viewed on your home computer.:[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/723198 "Europeans - China Coast : [card file<nowiki>]"</nowiki>] “Individual cards for Europeans residing in Hong Kong and China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”. Digitised microfilm which may be viewed on your home computer.:Search the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search FamilySearch Catalog] for additional catalogue entries, for example by using keywords Hong Kong, and filtering by English language, and selecting Availability Online. There are many databases available, including Church Registers for Birth, Marriage and Death, Cemetery Inscriptions[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/567122 catalogue entry], Will extracts, Card Files and other data from the Carl T. Smith collection etc, most of which are viewable on home computers. Also see [[FamilySearch Centres]] for changes involving microfilms.
*Refer online Hong Kong newspapers, see below, for birth, marriage and death notices.
*See Hong Kong Government Reports Online, below. A researcher advised that he found details of a relative who worked for the Hong Kong lighthouse service in these online government publications.<ref> Who Do You Think You Are? Forum thread "Lighthouse keeper in the dark", now no longer available <nowiki>http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic10068.html</nowiki> </ref> The information was found in an official publication know as the ''Blue Book'' in a section "Civil Establishments of Hongkong" which lists information about Civil Servants.
