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Berlin-Bob
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This topic will list some resource which you can use for searching for ancestors from British India.
You may need to know, or ask, Why were the ancestors in India ??
- Military service
- Government service
- Employess of the British India Company
- etc, etc
Please do not put requests on this topic.
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FIBIS - Families In British India Society: http://www.fibis.org/
at http://search.fibis.org/ you can search their database of transcribed records (BMD, military, etc, etc)
see the full list here: http://search.fibis.org/what_s_on_this_site.html
Lots of information here, including a searchable database.
The data presented here have been contributed by a number of hardworking and enthusiastic individuals and a small army of ‘FIBIS Volunteers’. The data are very largely taken from sources within the British Library’s India Office Records Section (IOR) to whom thanks are also due for authority to publish them here.
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more info here:
Topic: British Army in India, 1810-1820
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,148756.0.html
Topic: Birth in India
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,156280.0.html
Colonial armies — forces raised in other countries and such records are usually in the country where the forces were raised, except the Indian Army, for which many records are held at the
India Office Library,
197 Blackfriars Road,
London Se1 8NG.
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Topic: Online & Searchable - The India Office Records at British Library
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,265978.0.html
Hello all, unable to sleep & trawling the web, I came across this searchable website for 'The India Office Records' at the British Library. Haven't seen any reference to this on Rootschat, so here's the link. The following information in qoutes is direct from the British Library website. http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/Home.aspx"Use this website to search: 300,000 births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials in the India Office Records
biographical notes from a variety of sources for mainly British and European people in India c.1600-1949.
for people in other countries connected with the history of the British in India
About tells you what is and is not in this index.
Dictionary explains abbreviations, references and unusual terms
The India Office Records is the custodian of the archives of
East India Company (1600-1858)
Board of Control (1784-1858)
India Office (1858-1947)
Burma Office (1937-1948 )
The India Office Records’ collections contain much information of great interest to family historians, mainly relating to European and Eurasian people.
There are biographical sources for official and non-official inhabitants of the many overseas areas where the East India Company and India Office had influence, and also for home staff based in Britain The records include details for
civil servants
military personnel
mariners
medical staff
chaplains
railway workers
law officers
non-official inhabitants such as merchants and planters, free mariners, and missionaries.
The main British Library website includes details of all India Office Records, not just those of interest to family historians".As a non-military person, I found the dictionary particularly useful, as it explains what units / regiments the abbreviations used refer to. I'm not sure, but maybe some of the records could tie in nicely with Kevwood's offer of searching the 'Indian Mutiny Rolls', perhaps Kev could let us know. Enjoy & good luck. Regards, TonyR. |
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British India Family History
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/
includes many interesting "data" pages,
e.g. Census information:
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id32.html
including
1851 Bombay Census
"Returns Of Europeans Residing in Districts Under the Bombay Presidency on 30 March 1851"
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/1851bombaycensus/
OIOC Baptisms, Marriage and Burials
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id10.html
Passenger lists
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id38.html
Bengal Civil Service Gradation List 1869
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id41.html
etc, etc.
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Indian Cemeteries
Preserving the memory of historic cemeteries in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Burma http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/
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The new FamilySearchWiki site has some links (most of the links above), and also some addresses for archives in India. https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/IndiaThis site is on-going, so it's worth checking it regularly to see what's been added. Bob
This page has just had a major update.
Apart from a link to
Pages for India
on the right hand side there is a now list of topics with links to pages on
* Archives and Libraries
* Biography
* Cemeteries
* Census
* Church Directories
* Church History
* Church Records
* Civil Registration
* Court Records
* Directories | * Emigration and Immigration
* Gazetteers
* Genealogy
* Historical Geography
* History
* Land and Property
* Language and Languages
* Maps
* Military Records
* Names Personal | * Naturalization and Citizenship
* Newspapers
* Occupations
* Periodicals
* Probate Records
* Schools
* Societies
* Taxation |
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some searches can be done on line .... or try FIBIS !!
