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*There are Foreign Office (FO) files at the National Archives such as Consular Returns containing copies of entries of birth or baptism, marriage and death or burial of British subjects, Copies of some of these Consular returns are also available at the [[London Metropolitan Archives]], (previously the Guildhall Library), some of whose records have been microfilmed by FamilySearch.
:Most of these records will also be found in the records available from the General Register Office, described above. There are, however, some registers at Kew from which the entries were not transmitted to the Registrar General.<ref name=FSW/> :There are however, FO records such as cemetery files, which may not be available elsewhere. :Index records (with the possibility that some records may include an image) from some of the National Archives FO series are available in the '''findmypast datasets described above''', including some cemetery files.
:'''Update''': In April 2016, Ancestry introduced the database [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60911 UK, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths From British Consulates, 1810-1968] consisting of various Foreign Office records. This database consists of a selection of specified Consular returns, not all Consular Returns.
*There are some records in the series WO 156 "War Office: UK and overseas garrisons: Registers of Baptisms, Confirmations, Deaths/Burials, and Marriage".
**Some of the Registers of burials, described as "Selected pieces from the National Archives WO 156/103-122'" have been digitised and are available on the pay website "deceased online", refer below.
**Index records (with the possibility that some records may include an image) from some of the National Archives series WO 156 are available in the '''[[findmypast]] datasets described above'''.
==Military Overseas records for BMD==
*See [[Chaplains Returns]].
