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Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives[edit | edit source]

Department of National Archives
P.O. Box 1414
No.7, Philip Gunawardena Mawatha (Reid Avenue)
Colombo 7, Sri Lanka

Telephone: +94-112671042; +94-718605638
Fax:+94-112694419
Email: dgna@archives.gov.lk
Website
Holdings
Research Room

Endangered Archives: Sri Lanka

Libraries[edit | edit source]

National Library of Sri Lanka
No 14, Independence Avenue
Colombo 07
Sri Lanka

Telephone: +94 11 2698847
Website
Collections

Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library
7 Benambra Street
Broadmeadows, Victoria 3047
Australia

Email: victor@vmsl-library.com
Website
NOTABLE BURGHER PERSONALITIES

Those who do genealogical research find the entire collection of Dutch Burgher Union Journals (issued from 1908) and the indexes to the Baptism and Marriage Registers of the Dutch Reformed Church, Wolvendaal, Colombo (from 1700 to 1950) and the Register of Dutch Company Servants VOC) a very useful starting point in their research.

Museums[edit | edit source]

Google listing of Sri Lanka museums

Records Offices[edit | edit source]

Apply from any Divisional Secretariat in the District where the event occurred and applications can be obtained from any Divisional Secretariat.

Search engine for Divisional Secretariats

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+{{Block indent|Those who do genealogical  research find the entire collection of Dutch Burgher Union Journals (issued from  1908) and the indexes to the Baptism and Marriage Registers of the Dutch Reformed Church, Wolvendaal, Colombo (from 1700 to 1950) and the Register of Dutch Company Servants VOC) a very useful starting point in their research.|2}}
 ==Museums==
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