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FamilySearch database '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District, Dutch Reformed church records, 1677-1990''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1780708 catalogue entry]. Click though to '''indexes''' and film images. Note, it appears not all images have been indexed. For hints searching these images see [[IGI#India records|FamilySearch - India records]].
The North Parramatta Family History Centre in Sydney, Australia previously had the detailed indexes to the Baptisms and Marriages at the Dutch Reformed Church at Wolfendaal, Colombo, up to 1897. These were not FamilySearch microfilms but were spiral bound photocopies made from the journals and indexes at Victor Melder's Sri Lankan Library<ref>[https://www.vmsl-library.com/index.php Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library in Melbourne]</ref> in Melbourne. '''Update''' October 2019. Parramatta FHC appears to have closed, see
[[FamilySearch Centres]] for possible current location of this material.
FamilySearch digitized record item "Tombstone information from Sri Lanka cemeteries" [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1185486 catalogue entry]. 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 entry] 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.
