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Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Sri Lanka,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990-2000.</ref>
Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Sri Lanka,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990-2000.</ref>
===Dutch tombos/register of landholders===
Research use: A very important record group to build up local genealogies.  For some families this is the only source which provides linkage information.
Record type: Lists of principal Dutch landholders and families.
Time period: 1742 to 1771.
Contents: Name of landholder, name of wife, lands held, taxes paid to Dutch East India Company, and lists of previous landholder.
Location: Sri Lanka National Archives, Colombo.
Population coverage: About 30% of Dutch landholders in western and southern provinces.
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