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*See [[General Register Office]], UK. Also includes information about records such as British Consular Returns, including online sources.
*[http://www.jpn.gov.my/en/ National Registration Department, Ministry of Home Affairs] [Malaysia] is responsible for birth , marriage and death registration. The page Corporate Information/History advises “Birth and death records kept by the National Registration Department since nearly 150 years ago continue to be preserved to this day.” The email address appears to be <nowiki>pro@jpn.gov.my</nowiki>.
:There has been some registration since 1859<ref>[https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Malaysia_Civil_Registration Malaysia Civil Registration] FamilySearch Wiki.</ref>. Marriage registration has been in place in Malaysia since the late 1800s<ref> Esslemont, Don. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/MALAYSIAmalaysia.rootsweb.com/2008-03thread/35272205/1205835245 BMD certificates (was Robert Darwood engineer)] ''Rootsweb Malaysia Mailing List'' 18 Mar 2008, which quotes a source of information which no longer appears to be available. Retrieved 13 August 201721 November 2018.</ref>.
:It seems likely that records may be divided according to the current states and federal terrorities, so you would probably need to know geographical location.
*Birth, marriage and death notices may have been published in Singapore newspapers. See [[Singapore#Newspapers|Singapore - Newspapers]] for details of free online Singapore newspapers.
:[[BACSA]] have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. 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.
*''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.
*See [[Malacca]] and [[Dutch]] for records for researching those with Dutch ancestry.
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