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*See [[General Register Office]], UK. Also includes information about records such as British Consular Returns, including online sources. Includes details of a [[findmypast]] database "British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms". Note that within this database is a group of records "Sarawak Baptisms, 1844-1925" which are transcriptions provided by UK Genealogy Archives. There is however no further information about the source of these records.
*[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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200211114601/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/malaysia.rootsweb.com/thread/35272205/ BMD certificates (was Robert Darwood engineer)] ''Rootsweb Malaysia Mailing List'' 18 Mar 2008, now an archived webpage, which quotes a source of information which is no longer available as a webpage. There is a possibility this information may be contained in the "Resources" chapter of the book ''Empire’s Children: Trace Your Family History Across the World'' by Anton Gill 2007, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013623894 . This book accompanied the Channel 4 television series ''Empire's Children''.</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.
