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:For details including purchase, see [http://indian-cemeteries.org/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html BACSA Books] - select Cemetery Record Books.
:[[BACSA]] have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to search and browse, see the [[BACSA]] Fibiwiki page. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
:Justin Corfield’s book incorporates some of, perhaps the British burial entries of, three of the four volumes of the book by P.C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, ''Genealogische en heraldische gedenkwaardigheden betreffende Europeanen op Java'', [''Genealogical and heraldic memorabilia relating to Europeans in Java''] published 1934-1939, but not Volume 4, published in Batavia in 1939 and not widely available due to WW2. Volume 4 appears to be available at the [[British Library]] (note the BL appears to be missing Volume 3), and Volume 4 is also included, together with the first three volumes, in the DVD mentioned below (Dutch language). Note that the FamilySearch catalogue, see following, states that the information has been "transcribed from gravestones".
*The FamilySearch catalogue of microfilms/digitised microfilms includes the following
**"Genealogische en heraldische gedenkwaardigheden betreffende Europeanen op Java" (stated to be "Genealogical and heraldic information transcribed from gravestones in European cemeteries in Java") [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/65715 catalogue entry] Volumes 1-3 of the book by P. C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, mentioned above.
* For online editions of the publication ''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c'', and similar publications, which may contain birth, marriage and death notices, see the Fibiwiki page [[China]].
*''British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935)'' by Alan Harfield 1984 is available at the [[British Library]]. History of British and Indian Armies in Sumatra, Java, Sarawak, Malaya and Singapore from 1685-1935. Includes names of officers and men buried in these areas. Also includes name lists of persons in some military units which served in these areas.
*The [[Dutch Indies Genealogical Association]] sells publications, including a [httphttps://www.igv.nl/publicatiesproduct/dvd-bronnen-dvd voor-indisch-genealogisch-onderzoek/ DVD] of records from multiple sources including all four volumes of the book by Bloys van Treslong Prins, refer above. Both Note both the DVD and the webpage describing the DVD, are in Dutch. If the webpage does not display the contents of the DVD, click on Beschrijving. Google Translate, for reasons unknown, does not display the entire current webpage, but see [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=httphttps%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20170623101914%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.igv.nl%2Fpublicaties%2Fbronnen-dvd&edit-text=&act=url English translation Google Translate version of the an earlier webpage, now archived], using Google Translate, which however, contains may contain some inaccuracies.
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