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*There is a "Resources" chapter in 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 2007 Channel 4 television series ''Empire's Children''.
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*Ancestry database "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976",<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1897 "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976"] Ancestry database.</ref> part of Newspapers and Periodicals. Original data from the Andrews Collection. Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, Canterbury, Kent, England. Includes overseas information including BMDs and filings under the Colonial Probates Act of 1892 (which recognized probates from courts in British possessions).
*Birth, marriage and death notices in Newspapers and Journals. See [[Newspapers and journals online]] and links included on that page. including [[Newspapers]]. An example is ''The London and China Telegraph'', published in London, available online from 1860 to 1875, which included notices in respect of China, and the general area east of India, but a few deaths were noticed for India, and one noticed for Alexandria.
== External links ==
**[[IGI|FamilySearch]] has a catalogue entry [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/440722 Civil registration, 1848-1990] from the "Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Gibraltar" , with most of the records viewable on your home computer. Includes Card Indexes. Also a catalogue entry [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/112535 Anglican Chaplaincy, Gibraltar, christenings, 1807- 1812 Microfilm 883701] and a similar entry for marriages. These records have been transcribed and may be browsed by using “Batch Number” C-89999-1 and M-89999-1 in the “Search Historical Records” on the FamilySearch website. In addition there are some [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1770864 Gibraltar Baptisms 1704- 1876] index records, at least some/(all?) of which are Roman Catholic records transcribed from microfilm 1729828. Also [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1770887 Gibraltar Marriages, 1879-1918] index records, at least some/(all?) of which are Roman Catholic records transcribed from microfilm 1738755. There are also microfilms for Roman Catholic records available for additional periods, and also for burials, [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/459422 catalogue entry].
*:See the Fibiwiki page [[FamilySearch Centres]] for information about microfilms and digitised microfilms.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080915122721/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/index.php?cat=1 Trace and tell your family’s Empire stories] with links to pages "Government Records of Britons in … " including
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001654/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/chapters/index.php?cat=1&country=21 Government Records of Britons in Cyprus], Cyprus was part of the Empire between 1878 and 1960. Includes reference to ''Cyprus Gazettes'' dating from 1878-1965 in the National Archives, Kew reference series CO 70.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001704/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/chapters/index.php?cat=1&country=23 Government Records of Britons in Egypt]. Egypt was part of the Empire between 1914 and 1922.
:These pages c 2008 are from the archived website “Empire’s Children”, a website connected with the 2007 Channel 4 television series of the same name. Note, some of the information may now be outdated. Many of the internal links have not been archived.
:There is a "Resources" chapter in 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 television series ''Empire's Children''.
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