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== Online Records for Family History==
*The original records for Tranquebar are housed in archives in Denmark.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180707204429/http://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/etnografisksamling/dokumenter/Tranquebar_Registers__Ramanujam_2013.pdf Tranquebar Registers. Organised by P S Ramanujam 2013]. Containing Zion church Registry 1767-1845, transcribed from microfiche at the National Archives in Copenhagen, (a copy of the original documents in India) which has “reorganized chronologically Heiberg’s transcriptions of Zions Churchbooks”. Also contains Census for Tranquebar 1790 and 1834 from the Danish National Archives. National Museum of Denmark, now an archived webpage. [https://docsMainly in Danish, but some English description.google.com/viewer?url=http://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/etnografisksamling/dokumenter/Tranquebar_Registers__Ramanujam_2013.pdf Docs.google version]Believed to contain the marriage records published in 1935, refer Historical books online, [http://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/etnografisksamling/dokumenter/Tranquebar_Registers__Ramanujam_2013.pdf original pdf] In Danishbelow. (retrieved 10 May 2014)
* [[FamilySearch]]/LDS film no 128836 [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/307993 catalogue entry] covers registers of baptisms , marriages and burials of both the Jerusalem and Zion churches of Tranquebar during the period 1707-1818. These records, which were taken from the original records at Landsarkivet, Copenhagen, have now been digitised, and may be viewed on your home computer. Note: See "Tranquebar Registers" above which probably contains this information
*Some details are held in a card index compiled by Kay Larsen – which up to at least the early 1980s was housed in the Rigsarkivet in Copenhagen. This index, comprising handwritten personal data searchable by name , can now be found on [http://ddd.dda.dk/dop/sogeside.asp Dansk Demografisk Database] Danish Demographic Database., part of the Danish National Archives. For more details see [http://ddd.dda.dk/dop/introduktion.htm Kay Larsen's Introduction] which contains abbreviations used, and an [http://ddd.dda.dk/dop/efternavne.asp alphabetical list of the names] (in Danish, but Google Chrome will translate the pages)
* LDS films no 39091-39092 which covers 1834 census of Tranquebar (these films are in Danish and can be accessed as above, see "Tranquebar Registers" )
* ''List of marriages registered in the Danish church register of Zion church, Tranquebar, 1767-184'' by Knud Heiberg, published 1935, from records in Madras. (In the UK , this title is available in, at least, both the [[British Library]] and [[Society of Genealogists]] . See "Tranquebar Registers" above which appears to contain this information, and Historical books online, below).
*[[BACSA]] holdings at the [[British Library]] under references Mss Eur F370/1358A & B comprise ''The Tombs in the Danish Graveyards in Tranquebar'' Photocopies of Danish registers compiled by Rev Knud Heiberg following a survey in Mar 1935 and translated by Poul Beckmann, 2006. This information, (but in Danish) is probably available in "Tranquebar Registers" above
== External Links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180718030547/http://www.scholiast.org/history/tra-narr.html "Tranquebar - : The Danish East India Company 1616 - 1669"]by Peter Ravn Rasmussen. scholiast.org, now an archived webpage. Revised and reworked from what was originally a term paper written at the University of Copenhagen in spring 1996.
*Article "A Danish heritage on Indian shores" [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091206/spectrum/main7.htm The Tribune (India)] of 6 December 2009
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130815060649/http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com:80/blogs/traveler/tranquebar-town-singing-waves-042732852.html "Tranquebar – a slice of Denmark in India"] by Anand Yegnaswami 7 December, 2011 in.lifestyle.yahoo.com, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130811131612/http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com:80/coromandel-diaries---following-the-danish-trail-to-tranquebar.html "Coromandel Trail - Following the Danish to Tranquebar"] by Lakshmi Sharath 17 September, 2012 in.lifestyle.yahoo.com, now archived.
*[http://redscarabtravelandmedia.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/tranquebar-dancing-waves-and-a-danish-dream/ "Tranquebar: Dancing waves and a Danish dream"] by Anurag Mallick and Priya Ganapathy May 6, 2013 from the authors’ website redscarab
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1251641/ “The Medical Skills of the Malabar Doctors in Tranquebar, India, as Recorded by Surgeon T L F Folly, 1798”] by Niklas Thode Jensen, PhD student Med Hist. 2005 October 1; 49(4): 489–515.
*[httphttps://www.colonialvoyage.com/trankebar.html tranquebar-danish-fort-india/ Tranquebar: a Danish Fort in India –Trankebar] from Marco Ramerini’s Dutch Portuguese Colonial History
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2019%20No%207/otherstories.html "Pages from History: Documenting the flora of the Coromandel"] by Dr A Raman ''Madras Musings'' July 16-31, 2009. Johann Peter Rottler Missionary (1749-1836). Scroll to the bottom of the page
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2020%20No%201/otherstories.html#story2 "Pages from History: An Icelander’s view of 17th C. Tranquebar"] by Dr A Raman ''Madras Musings'' April 16-30 , 2010
===Historical books online===
*''Memoirs of the life and correspondence of the Reverend Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a Sketch of the history of Christianity in India'' by Hugh Pearson, Dean of Salisbury 2nd Edition 1835 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PHDMBnALbxUC&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vsiRnK4F6egC&pg=PR1Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=x20eAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 First American edition (abridged) 1835] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70473 ''List of European Tombs in the Tanjore District''] 1914 Archive.org. Includes Tranquebar. Also available [https://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZI9juMy&tag=List%20of%20European%20tombs%20in%20the%20Tanjore%20district#book1/ Tamil Virtual Library].
*[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/22621 ''List of marriages registered in the Danish Church register of Zior Church, Tranquebar, 1767-1845''] by Knud Heiberg (Superintendent, Government Press, Madras, 1935). Includes link to a pdf download GIPE Digital Library. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune (India).
