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'''The London Metropolitan Archives''' contains some overseas records previously held at the Guildhall Library. These records are explained in the FamilySearch Wiki article, "British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas", refer [[General Register Office# External links| External links below]].
Examples of records held are:*[http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+DL~2FE~2FE~2F056~2FMS11215A?SESSIONSEARCH DL/E/E/056/MS11215A] Transcripts of Baptisms 1875-8 and Marriages 1877 at The Mission Chapel, Julfa, Persia.*[http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+DL~2FE~2FE~2F059~2FMS11218?SESSIONSEARCH DL/E/E/059/MS11218] Transcripts of baptisms 1820-38, marriages 1822-38 and burials 1821-38 at Macao, and burials 1820-4 at Whampoa (registered at Macao), with certificates of marriages at the China Inland Mission at Wanhsien 1934, and Chengtu 1935 Some of these overseas records from the LMA are available on [[LDS]] microfilm <ref>LDS Microfilm catalogue entry [https://familysearch.org/engsearch/librarycatalog/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp1188781?display=titledetails&titlenoavailability=268289&disp=Original+certificates+of+baptisms+and+maFamily%2020History%20&columns=*,020Library Foreign registers,0 Original certificates of baptisms and marriages of British subjects abroad1785-1891; index, solemnized or registered at diplomatic representations1816-1865]</ref>
Note, some records from the London Metropolitan Archives are available on the pay website Ancestry, but not currently (March 2014) the overseas records.
