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+== Online Resources ==
-== Cemetery, funeral and cremation records ==
-Research use:  Death information in other records is often meager.  Used to identify surviving children in church records, and other family relationships.  Chinese and other non-Christian cemeteries are particularly valuable due to a dearth of other records.
-Record type:  Lists of gravestone burial records, exhumations, cremations, sextons records, obituaries, funeral memorials.
-Time Period: 1550-present.
-Content:  Name, age, death and burial date and place, birth date and place, sometimes relatives including immediate family and previous generations.
-Location: Municipal archives, church archives, libraries, Chinese community associations, cemetery offices.
-Population coverage: 10%.
-Reliability:  Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Myanmar,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2001.</ref>
-== British Cemeteries ==
-The FamilySearch Library has a few books on grave sites of British soldiers in various areas of South East Asia, including Myanmar (Burma). These can be located by going to a Place search in the catalog under:
-MYANMAR - CEMETERIES
-== Resources ==
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taukkyan_War_Cemetery Taukkyan War Cemetery]
-* C[https://www.cwgc.org/search-results/?Term=Myanmar ommonwealth War Graves]
+* [https://www.cwgc.org/search-results/?Term=Myanmar Commonwealth War Graves]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanbyuzayat_War_Cemetery Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayeyeiknyein_Cemetery Ayeyeiknyein Cemetery]
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 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayway_Cemetery Yayway Cemetery]
-== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayway_Cemetery References] ==
+== Cemetery, Funeral and Cremation Records ==
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+Death information in other records is often meager.  Used to identify surviving children in church records, and other family relationships.  Chinese and other non-Christian cemeteries are particularly valuable due to a dearth of other records.
+These records include lists of gravestone burial records, exhumations, cremations, sextons records, obituaries, funeral memorials. Some records begin in about 1550.
+These records may contain the following information:  Name, age, death and burial date and place, birth date and place, sometimes relatives including immediate family and previous generations. Records can be found at municipal archives, church archives, libraries, Chinese community associations, and cemetery offices. About ten percent of the population may be cound in these records.
+== British Cemeteries ==
+The FamilySearch Library has a few books on grave sites of British soldiers in various areas of South East Asia, including Myanmar (Burma). These can be located by going to a Place search in the catalog under:
+[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=1927166&query=%2Bplace%3AMyanmar%20%2Bsubject%3ACemeteries&subjectsOpen=705330-50 Myanmar - Cemeteries]
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