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*[httphttps://www.bristolchinafamilies.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors/shanghai.html#Obituary Shanghai Ancestorsnet China Families] from , previously called China Coast Family History, and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs Projectproject, University of Bristol has various . The website provides "a growing body of informationabout men and women of many different nationalities, including a number of useful databasesprofessions and ages, on its website which may assist who lived and worked in China between the search for European ancestors1850s and 1940s. These databases include records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a searchable named index number of Chinese probates, cemetery information projects on the history of modern China and directory extractsof the foreign relations of China". Also includes an alphabetical database There is a Search facility and links to a number of names online Directories. Look under Records for the databases specifically about Shanghai , including Municipal PolicePoliceman and Shanghai’s refugees, 1944.

:The SMP files represent a large portion of the archives of the British-run municipal police force based in Shanghai's former International Settlement. This force was established shortly after the formation in 1854 of the settlement's presiding body, the Shanghai Municipal Council. The files are, for the most part, the records of the SMP Special Branch, which investigated and reported on alleged subversive activities and maintained peace and stability in the International Settlement. The time period covered by the SMP files extends from 1894 to 1949, The collection is housed [at the time of the guide] in the Military Archives Division of the National Archives, Washington, DC.