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FamilySearch database '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District , Dutch Reformed Church Records church records, 1677-1990 are available on the familysearch website. These are not searchable by name but as images that can be browsed <ref>*''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/listcatalog/?page=1&countryId=1927054 Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-19901780708 catalogue entry] Familysearch </ref>. Click though to '''indexes''' and film images.
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 FamilySearch microfilms but are spiral bound photocopies made from the journals and indexes at Victor Melder's Sri Lankan Library in Melbourne.
FamilySearch digitized record "Tombstone information from Sri Lanka cemeteries" [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1185486 catalogue recordentry]. Contains inscriptions from the following cemeteries in Sri Lanka: St. Mark's Church in Badulla, St. Andrews Church in Haputale, Christ Church in Bandarawela, Ragalla Church in Halgranoya, Holy Trinity Church in Pussellawa, Christ Church in Matale and St. James Church in Nallur, Jaffna.
FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/339757 catalogue recordentry] for ''Lapidarium-Zeylanicum : being a collection of monumental inscriptions of the Dutch-Churches and churchyards of Ceylon'' by Leopold Ludovici, published 1877. Available as two digitised microfilms, one of which 1496387 is available to view on your home computer. Click on the camera icon and navigate to item 2, images 126-228. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search Search] the FamilySearch catalogue, using Keywords such as Ceylon, Sri Lanka, and filtering by Availability online, and language. There are many databases available classified as English language, of records from the Registrar-General's Department where the notes indicate the language to be “Sinhalese, English, Tamil”. Of a sample of records viewed, no records in English were sighted.
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