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Except for the few short years when the East India Company was in control (1796-1802) records for Ceylon will not be found in the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]], but at [[The National Archives]] at Kew. For example, the description and succession books of the Ceylon Rifles covering years 1809-1872 are held under reference W025/638-641 (these include officers services) and reference WO23/158 includes the admission books for the Ceylon Rifles and Gun Lascars for the period May 1868-Sept 1876. Personal data may also be held amongst the National Archive's Administrative Records of [[Ceylon]] (Sri Lanka).
Some birth marriage and death information in respect of civil registration from 1867 may be obtained by writing to Registrar General's Office, New Secretariat, Maligawatta, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka. In Holland, located in the same building as the National Archives at The Hague but a separate organization, is the 'Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie' (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG) , the Dutch information and documentation centre for genealogy, family history and related sciences. Researchers visiting this centre found some copies of records relating to British Ceylon christenings. <ref> Andresen, Larry & Coreen [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/srilanka/2006-12/1167611521 British Ceylon christening records in The Hague] ''Rootsweb Srilanka Mailing List'', 01 January 2007 and [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SRILANKA/2007-01/1167732982 02 January 2007] Retrieved 15 September 2014</ref>
===LDS Records===
The North Parramatta [[Family History Centres|Family History Centre]] in Sydney, Australia has the detailed indexes to the Baptisms and Marriages at the Dutch Reformed Church at Wolfendaal, Colombo, up to 1897. These are not LDS microfilms but are spiral bound photocopies made from the journals and indexes at Victor Melder's Sri Lankan Library in Melbourne.
 
==Churches and cemeteries==
A researcher advised a trip to Sri Lanka in 2010 "uncovered masses of records in churches in Kandy, Colombo, Galle and Matara that need to be photographed ASAP. The Galle Dutch church records seem to have disappeared. The Methodist Church seems to have centralised all records prior to 1982 in Colombo".<ref>ceylonsearch [http://boards.ancestry.com.au/localities.asia.srilanka.general/2009.10.1/mb.ashx Early British Ceylon military records] ''Rootsweb Srilanka Mailing List'' 20 Oct 2010 8:56AM Retrieved 15 September 2014</ref>
 
The Galle Face Burial Ground was opened in 1803 and located on the south side of the Fort.<ref> [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007648516#page/n44/mode/1up Page 27] ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon'' by J. Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org.</ref> Trying to locate this cemetery which appears to have also been the Garrison cemetery, a researcher was told that a Roman Catholic church had been built on the site and all the tombstones moved to the Kanatte cemetery. She also visited the Garrison cemetery in Kandy which has been restored <ref> Williams, Anne Winter [http://boards.ancestry.com.au/localities.asia.srilanka.general/585/mb.ashx Galle Face burial ground/Garrison cemetery] ''Rootsweb Srilanka Mailing List'' 13 February 2004. Retrieved 15 September 2014</ref>
==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=267 Monumental Inscriptions from Columbo Cemetery, Ceylon] FIBIS Database
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1623&s_id=975 ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated''] by J Penry Lewis in FIBIS database
*[[:Category:Ceylon images|Images of Ceylon]] ==Also see==*[[Dutch]]
== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon] Wikipedia
*[http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/tracingasianroots/ceylon.htm Administrative Records of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)] - movinghere.org *[http://www.rgdept.lk/civil/Obtaining.aspx Registrar General’s Department, Colombo]. Registration of births, marriages and deaths from 1867. Retrieved 15 September 2014*[http://www.cbg.nl/index.php/EN?taal=EN Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG)] The Hague, The Netherlands. Retrieved 15 September 2014
*[http://www.almarteas.com/tea_history.html History of Ceylon Tea] almarteas.com
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/ The Virtual Library of Sri Lanka] has a section "History", which in turn has a section "Colonial History, The British in Lanka (1796-1948)"
*[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/under/research.html Under a Tropical Sun] (Macquarie University) covers 1796-1821. Includes the historical background and contemporary accounts of the Officers of the [[73rd Regiment of Foot]] (and their families) in Ceylon 1814-21.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20081226233214/http://www.gol27.com/HistoryTeaCeylon.html History of Tea in Ceylon], an archived site.
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw Sri Lanka Genealogy Website] including
* Kyle Joustra’s [http://www.ceylondatabase.net/Genealogy.html International Ceylon Database], includes [http://www.ceylondatabase.net/military.html Military], with regiments and names
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mossvalley/mv4/95th-ceylon.html The 95th Regiment In Ceylon] 1838-1847 “Moss Valley”. Retrieved 28 August 2014
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