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*The National Archives Research Guide [https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/birth-marriage-death-sea-or-abroad/ "How to look for records of Births, marriages and deaths at sea or abroad"]
:Listen to [https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/overseas-births-marriages-and-deaths-records-in-the-national-archives/ "Overseas births, marriages and deaths: records in The National Archives"] 5 March 2012 Audio. The National Archives.
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''' General Register Office [UKEngland and Wales]'''
<br>'''and some other sources of records from abroad.'''
==Other records at the National Archives==
*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/>
**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. The overseas records appear to be WO 156/106 Cyprus burials; WO 107-110 Egypt burials; WO 156/111-117, 121-122 Malta burials; WO 156/119 Singapore burials; WO 156/594-595 Malta baptisms & marriages; WO 156/596-598 Malta baptisms.
*At The National Archives, AIR 82 RAF Chaplaincy Board: Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers contains at least some records relating to overseas including Egypt, such as AIR 82/3 Register of baptisms: RAF Abu Seuir, Egypt 1924 Jul 31 - 1955 Oct 2; AIR 82/559 Register of graves: 4 Flying Training School, Ismailia, and RAF Abu Sueir, Egypt 1922 Jun 17 - 1951 Nov 30; AIR 82/560 Register of marriages: Abu Sueir, Egypt, and Nicosia, Cyprus 1936 Dec 09 - 1973 Nov 24. There may be other relevant TNO files.
*TNA The National Archives record series [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C435 Division within CO: Government gazettes from the colonies] 1794-1990. Also includes mandated territories such as Iraq, CO 813 1921-1955, and Palestine, CO 742 1919-1948, although Egypt is not included. Gazettes generally provide information on a variety of subjects, including notices of appointments. There is also a series of publications known as ''Blue Books'', to be found in [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C437 Division within CO: Records of Local Bodies and Other Colonial Miscellanea] which often contained occupational details, mainly in the form of a Civil List, although sometimes a ''Civil List'' was issued as a separate publication. As an example see [[Hong Kong]] where some For online editions of these publications are available online, and the [https://archive.org/details/colonial-office-gb-publications?sort=-publicdate Colonial Office (Great Britain) publications] Collection at Archive.org also includes some online ''Blue BookBooks'' editions, see Historical books online below.
==Military Overseas records for BMD==
*[[Findmypast]] (pay website). Under the tab "Search records" is a category [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 "A-Z of record sets"] which is a listing of all the record databases.
*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.
*The [https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org Lambeth Palace Library, London], the principal repository of the documentary history of the Church of England, holds some limited overseas registers and transcripts including Mesopotamia (Iraq), Sudan, China as set out on pages 5-6 of [https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/sites/default/files/family_history.pdf "Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide Sources for Family History and Genealogy"]. Some/all? of the records for [[China]] are available on FamilySearch microfilm, catalogue entries [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/76774 A], [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/76759 B] and [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/76781 C], however only the first is available as digitised microfilm (restricted to [[FamilySearch Centres]] and FS affiliate libraries) and the other two must be viewed as microfilm, either at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and the second, the film in B, is also noted to be available at the [[Society of Genealogists]] in London, although this information is somewhat hidden in the FS catalogue (When commencing to Search, unclick Online, then select Family History Center, and from the drop down menu underneath select Society of Genealogists).
:The records for Mesopotamia include
:MS 2503-2507 Registers of St. Peter's church, Basra 1934-1968. MS 2669-2676 Registers for Mesopotamia (Iraq) 1883-1972, which in turn includes MS 2669 General register of baptisms in Mesopotamia, 1916-22, and in St. George's church, Baghdad, 1922-8. C.M.S. and civil chaplaincy baptisms are entered from 1921, and Royal Air Force baptisms from 1926; MS 2672 General register of marriages in Mesopotamia (including Baghdad), 1917-1928. Civil marriages are registered from 1922.
*There are some overseas records at the [[London Metropolitan Archives]].
*See [[Cemeteries]] for websites including [[BACSA]], Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Find A Grave, BillionGraves.
*Records at the General Register Office and The National Archives for Statutory Returns, including Consular Returns, and all the records covered by the GRO Indexes, '''may not include records of persons originating from Scotland and Ireland''', and records must be looked for in Scotland and Ireland. For more details, see the FamilySearch Wiki article, and National Records of Scotland article below. Online sources include ScotlandsPeople, see [[Scotland]], which provides record guides.<refname=ScotP>[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/statutory-register-births Statutory register of births]; [https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/statutory-register-marriages Statutory register of marriages]; [https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/statutory-register-deaths Statutory register of deaths] scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Includes BMD in foreign counties from 1860 and at sea from 1855.</ref>
== External links ==
'''OfficialGRO'''
*[https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp Order a certificate online] from the GRO. This is the only GRO website. Once you are logged in, it is now (introduced November 2016) possible to search for GRO Historic Birth and Death Index References through the website. "... the new GRO indexes enable researchers to click through from their findings and make purchases on the same platform. Crucially, the birth index also provides mothers’ maiden names for the full range of entries. In other online indexes, it is only possible for researchers see these details for births registered from July 1911 onwards.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200720071408/http://cdn.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gro-launches-new-digital-services "GRO launches new digital services"] by jonbauckham, 4 November 2016 whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com, now archived.</ref>
: '''Note''': If you do not supply the GRO Index Reference, the certificate will cost more, and may take longer to be sent. The cheaper PDF format is not available for Forces or Overseas Records, or UK marriages.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Register_Office GRO] Wikipedia
*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/British_Births,_Marriages_and_Deaths_Overseas British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas] FamilySearch Wiki. Based on three articles by [https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/User:AnthonyJCamp Anthony Camp], formerly Director of [[Society of Genealogists]], in ''Family Tree Magazine'' [UK] Volume 16, No. 9, 10 and 12 published in July, August and October 2000, available on [https://archive.org/details/pt1-camp-july2000p13/Pt1CampJuly2000p13.jpg Archive.org].
*[https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/birth-death-and-marriage-records/minor-records "Minor Records of Births, Deaths and Marriages Overseas"] National Records of Scotland. The Minor Records are statutory registers of births, deaths and marriages of Scots (or persons of Scottish descent) which occurred outside Scotland. Some/all? of these records are available online on ScotlandsPeople.<ref name=ScotP/>
*The National Archives Research Guide [https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/birth-marriage-death-sea-or-abroad/ "How to look for records of Births, marriages and deaths at sea or abroad"]
:Listen to [https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/overseas-births-marriages-and-deaths-records-in-the-national-archives/ "Overseas births, marriages and deaths: records in The National Archives"] 5 March 2012 Audio. The National Archives.
*[https://search.lma.gov.uk/rg_pdf_creator/index.php?research_guide=36 "Births Marriages and Deaths Overseas"] London Metropolitan Archives Research Guide 8.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200715044802/http://www.sog.org.uk/uploads/Else_Churchill_-_British_Overseas_Records_in_the_UK.pdf Sources for the British Overseas in the GRO, TNA, Guildhall, SoG Library] by Else Churchill. Images, but minimal text, one of a series of [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225135221/http://www.sog.org.uk/learn/who-do-you-think-you-are-2013-speakers-handouts/ 2013 presentations]. sog.org.uk, archived webpages. Images of actual records available.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070221104808/http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/pdfs/british_in_india.pdf Fact Sheet: The British in India] from the now closed [[Family Records Centre]] which was run jointly by the GRO and the National Archives. familyrecords.gov.uk, now archived. The records from the Family Records Centre are now divided between the two mentioned organisations.
*[http://levantineheritage.com/regist1.htm Levantine Heritage: Registers] levantineheritage.com. [http://levantineheritage.com Home Page]. The term “Levantines” designates primarily those Europeans and Americans who settled in the Levant - a region generally conterminous with the Ottoman Empire - from the early 17th century until 1923. The website is very extensive. To access some sections you need to use the Search, as these sections aren't otherwise linked from website pages.
:FamilySearch catalogue entry microfilm 1999050, items 8-9, Church of England [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/762275 Parish registers and notes, 1763-1959: Izmir, previously Smyrna, Turkey], from the London Metropolitan Archives (previously Guildhall Library).
: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''.
*Article [https://anthonyjcamp.com/pages/general-register-office "General Register Office. Facing the Future: the challenge of the Citizen’s Charter for the Registration Service"]. A talk to a conference of Registration Service officers on what genealogists want from the service and whether more open access to the records is possible without new legislation, by Anthony J. Camp, Chester, 11 February 1993, published in ''Genealogists’ Magazine'', December 1993. anthonyjcamp.com
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/n9/mode/2up/search/Rocco "Monumental Inscriptions of the British Cemeteries in the Ionian Islands"] by Ortho Alexander, British Consul, pages 13, 71, 110, 146, 320 ''Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, Volume II, Fourth Series'' 1908. Many Army and Navy entries. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/tracingyourances0000unse/page/64/mode/2up "Births, marriages and deaths of Britons overseas and at sea"] Chapter 4, page 65 and [https://archive.org/details/tracingyourances0000unse/page/153/mode/2up "Britons abroad: in foreign countries and in the Empire"] Chapter 13 page 153 ''Tracing your ancestors in the Public Record Office'' by Amanda Bevan, Sixth Edition 2002, published by the (now) National Archives. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. There was a 7th edition published in 2006 ''Tracing your ancestors in the National Archives''.
:Includes [https://archive.org/details/tracingyourances0000unse/page/74/mode/2up Section 4.15 "Tables of overseas birth, marriage and death records in the PRO" [TNA<nowiki>]</nowiki> [by country<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 74. By looking at the constituent records for the Findmypast and Ancestry databases above, you can determine whether the records of interest to you are available online.
*''Blue Books'' were produced by the Government of British colonies for the Colonial Office in London. Generally they included a Civil List which was a list of all Government employees, which could include detailed information, although in some countries such as Ceylon the Civil List was issued as a separate publication. [https://archive.org/details/colonial-office-gb-publications?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Blue+Book%22&sort=titleSorter Books classified as ''Blue Book''] from [https://archive.org/details/colonial-office-gb-publications?sort=titleSorter Colonial Office (Great Britain) publications] Collection, Archive.org. Listed alphabetically by title, which could vary over time for a particular colony. In addition, there may be other volumes available at Archive org, additional to this collection. Includes publications from [[East Africa|Africa]], Cyprus, Gibraltar, [[Hong Kong]], Malta, [[Singapore]] and [[West Indies]], but not Egypt.
*[https://archive.org/details/20thc-impressions-of-egypt/page/n9/mode/2up ''Twentieth Century Impressions of Egypt. Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources''] by Arnold Wright and H. A. Cartwright 1909. [https://archive.org/details/20thc-impressions-of-egypt/page/n18/mode/1up Contents] Archive.org.
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