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*[https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History, and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol. The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories.
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**Details of some of the inscriptions from the Ossuary<ref>[http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com/2018/ "The Ossuary"]. A series of articles by Christine M. Thomas from December 2018. [http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com/2019/01/ 2019/01], [http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com/2019/03/ 2019/03]. There are biographical articles about the cemetery from June 2010. ''Hong Kong Cemetery''. </ref>
:For expanded cemetery details, see ''Forgotten Souls : a Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery'' by Patricia Lim c 2011. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01015724284 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iaZMzPuLAggC&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] Google Books.
*See External links below for the Searchable database databases on the website ''China Families''.*See External links below for the Searchable database ''The Carl Smith Collection'' at the Government Records Service/Public Records Office. Note, some or all of this collection is available as images on FamilySearch.
*FamilySearch Research page [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927198?region=Hong%20Kong Hong Kong] for Historical Records. However, some records are classified as China records and it may be clearer to find records directly from the Catalog specifically for Hong Kong, see following item.
*FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes
:"Births, deaths, marriages from Canton and Hong Kong newspapers, arranged chronologically, 1828-1862" [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/567153 catalogue entry] microfilm 1208508, item 13, which has been digitised and may be viewed on your home computer.
:[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/723198 "Europeans - China Coast : [card file<nowiki>]"</nowiki>] Carl T. Smith collection. “Individual cards for Europeans residing in Hong Kong and China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”. Digitised microfilm which may be viewed on your home computer.
:Search the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog FamilySearch Catalog] for additional catalogue entries, for example by using keywords Hong Kong, and filtering by English language, and selecting Availability Online. There are many databases available, including Church Registers for Birth, Marriage and Death, Cemetery Inscriptions [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/567122 catalogue entry], Will extracts, Card Files and other data from the Carl T. Smith collection etc, most of which are viewable on home computers. Also see [[FamilySearch Centres]] for changes involving microfilms.
*Refer online Hong Kong newspapers, see below, for birth, marriage and death notices.
*See [[Cemeteries]] for websites such as Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The War Graves Photographic Project, which include pages titled Stanley Military Cemetery and Sai Wan (China) Memorial, in addition to other pages.
*The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] holds information on both Happy Valley and Stanley cemeteries under file reference Mss Eur F370/81
*The book ''Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley'' by Solomon Bard 1997 is available at the [[British Library]] in the [[BACSA]] Archive, catalogue reference Mss Eur F370/1242. By the same author, but not held in the BACSA Archive, ''Report on survey and study of old service graves at Stanley Military Cemetery'' 1984 and ''Study of Military Graves and Monuments: Hong Kong Cemetery'' 1991, (Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office), the latter may possibly include information about Stanley Cemetery.<ref>''Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan'' by Gotelind Müller 2018, page 16, footnote 72 and page 18, footnote 85. See [[Hong Kong#External links|External links]], above.</ref> The 1984 and 1991 publications are available at the Government Records Service Hong Kong, also, or previously known as the Public Record Office, Hong Kong in the Library, DDC Call Number 929.5095125 BAR and 929.5 BAR respectively.
*The book ''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01009472436 . Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.people.ex-forces/v3LqubdrU1k link] lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484).
*The book ''Traders of Hong Kong: Some Foreign Merchant Houses, 1841-1899'' by Solomon Bard Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1993 is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012493829 . [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Traders_of_Hong_Kong.html?id=IXeHAAAAIAAJ Searchable but not viewable Google Books]. "A very useful summary of the wide range of foreigners, from Germans and Americans to Armenians, Parsees and Jews"<ref> "Annotated Bibliography The Basics" ''Hong Kong History Project''. Refer External links, above.</ref>
*[http://files.lib.byu.edu/family-history-library/research-outlines/Asia/HongKong.pdf “Major Genealogical Record Sources in Hong Kong”] by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Series J, No. 4 1975. lib.byu.edu. Refers to Civil Registration. Records prior to 1873 no longer exist. All pre-war marriage records have been lost.
**[http://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/contactus/index.html Immigration Department contact details]. This Department is responsible for Civil Registration but the website does not include information about certificates for family history purposes for persons not resident in Hong Kong, so you would need to contact the Department.
*Hong Kong [https://www.grs.gov.hk/en/index.html Government Records Service] grs.gov.hk. Archives and Library with an online catalogue. Also, or previously, known as the Public Records Office (PRO), Hong Kong.
**[https://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/public_records_office.pdf Hong Kong: Public Records Office] Fact sheet dated November 2019. gov.hk
**[https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarladv.xhtml Search the Carl Smith Collection] of 140,000 index cards. In respect of these records, the website ''China Families'' advises "The cards contain information about residents not only in the former British colony, but across China. The catalogue does now allow you to view cards, but they are small in size, and the search results are often very numerous".
*:Some or all of these records are available on FamilySearch on your home computers, refer Records above.
*Newspapers, including online
**[https://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/index.html Hong Kong Public Libraries]
:*''Overland China Mail'' was the weekly edition of ''China Mail'', also containing articles from ''Evening Mail'' and ''Sunday Herald'', and was published 1848 to 1941.<ref>[http://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/common/attachments/hkcl/resources/resources_ra_01_reading_area.pdf Hong Kong Public Library] page. Also [https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/02/15/new-titles-15-february-2021/ "Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week"] February 15, 2021. The British Newspaper Archive Blog.</ref>
::''Overland China Mail'' is available on [[Findmypast]], category "Newspapers & periodicals/British Newspapers ", with 'County' classified as Hong Kong China, with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites, added Feb 9, 2021. The date range when added was January 11, 1853 to December 30, 1915 being 1853-1861, 1863-1894, 1897-1915 (with 1848–1916 planned), with details on a [https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/overland-china-mail BNA page]. For BNA, the 'Region' is classified as South Central China, and the 'County' is classified as Hong Kong, China. It is possible to browse individual editions on BNA, in addition to searching. To browse the Findmypast editions, use the filters under "Narrow your search results" (left hand side of the webpage) "By Newspaper" and "By Date".
*[https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History, and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol. The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories. Also includes a page [https://www.chinafamilies.net/links-for-further-research/hong-kong/ Hong Kong]
*Cemeteries
**[https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/8684b2e7b8d0256b3529f07addef9651.pdf "Notes for a visit to the Government Cemetery at Happy Valley"] by Carl T. Smith ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch'' Vol. 25 (1985) hkjo.lib.hku.hk
*[https://www.hkmemory.hk/ Hong Kong Memory] Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Hong Kong Government. “Hong Kong Memory (HKM) is a multi-media web site that gives free and open access to digitized materials on Hong Kong’s history, culture and heritage”. Includes
**[https://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/hong_kong_cemetery/about/index.html "Hong Kong Cemetery"] Searchable and browsable database is created by Ms Patricia Lim, with images.
*[https://www.houghton.hk/?p=22 Hong Kong 1836-1844] in three parts, from "A Peoples' History 1793 – 1844 from the newspapers" houghton.hk. Extracts from Chinese region newspapers, ''Canton Register'' and ''Friend of China''.
*Rudi Butt’s [http://hongkongsfirst.blogspot.com/ Hong Kong’s First]. A blog about historical aspects of Hong Kong
:[https://archive.org/details/hongkongholiday0000unse/page/n327 ''Hong Kong Holiday''] by Emily Hahn 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofhongkon0000enda/page/n5/mode/2up ''A History of Hong Kong''] by G B Endacott 1964, first published 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/26ce4e7c530ccd62a466d2d62b7884d6.pdf ''Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong. The Story of the British Military Hospital Hong Kong 1942-1945''] by Donald C Bowie ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 15 (1975) pages 150-290. From [https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkjo/home Hong Kong Journals online] hkjo.lib.hku.hk.
*[https://archive.org/details/lastinghonour00lind/mode/2up ''The Lasting Honour : the Fall of Hong Kong, 1941''] by Oliver Lindsay 1980, first published 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/atgoingdownofsun0000lind/page/n5/mode/2up ''At the Going Down of the Sun : Hong Kong and South-East Asia, 1941-1945''] by Oliver Lindsay 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
