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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 Methodist Church seems to have centralised all records prior to 1982 in Colombo".<ref>ceylonsearch (Larry and Coreen) [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 Anglican church records are at the Diocesan library in Colombo. The records are from churches all over the Island."<ref>Andresen, Larry and Coreen [http://genforum.genealogy.com/srilanka/messages/2343.html Anglican Church Records repository] May 13, 2014 ''GenForum: Sri Lanka Genealogy Forum''. Retrieved 28 September 2014</ref>
Several kinds of registers of the Dutch Reformed Church at Galle and Matara are to be found in the main office of the Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka, in Colombo. The volumes include baptismal (1677-1807), marriage (1744-1847) and burial registers (1770-1840s), all for Galle, and a baptismal register for Matara 1776-1800. No inventory is available and some of the material is heavily damaged. In the future, the collection may be transferred to the Wolvendaal Church<ref>[http://www.academia.edu/1787722/_Gold-Leaf_Flattery_Calcuttan_Dust_and_a_Brand_New_Flagpole._Five_Little-Known_VOC_Collections_in_Asia_on_India_and_Ceylon_Itinerario_36_1_2012_ "Gold-Leaf Flattery, Calcuttan Dust, and a Brand New Flagpole: Five Little-Known VOC Collections in Asia on India and Ceylon"] by Lennart Bes ''Itinerario'' Volume 36 Issue 01 April 2012, pp 91 - 106. Scroll to page 95, to the section "Galle Books, Christian Reformed Church (Colombo)" The address is given on page 106. academia.edu. '''Note''': May be slow to open. Retrieved 18 November 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>
