29,525
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
:Search the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog 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 Historical books online below, including**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.**Directories and related publications, including ''The Colonial Office List''.
*See [[Cemeteries]] for websites such as Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The War Graves Photographic Project, which include pages titled Stanley Military Cemetery and Sai Wan (China) Memorial, in addition to other pages.
*The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] holds information on both Happy Valley and Stanley cemeteries under file reference Mss Eur F370/81
*[https://www.chinafamilies.net/directories/ Online Directories] from [https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families] University of Bristol. Mostly these focus on Shanghai, although there are some about Hong Kong.
*[http://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinfareast00hongrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June''] Achive.org
*''The Colonial Office List for ...''. Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. First published 1862. See [[Directories online#Colonial Office List|Directories online - Colonial Office List]] for a broken range 1862-1920s1940. Includes Hong Kong and Wei-hai-wei.
*[https://archive.org/details/barbarianeyelord00napi/mode/2up ''Barbarian eye : Lord Napier in China, 1834, the prelude to Hong Kong''] by Priscilla Napier 1995. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese'' from Notes of W[illiam] H[enry] Hall, R N and W D Bernard 1844 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nX1CAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9HZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] Google Books
