kenya and Goa india

[davethepost]

hi, I am helping a friend to get started on his tree. No problem on his fathers side, but his Mother was born in Kenya and her parents/grandparents were from Goa in India and were Catholics with Portuguese names. Any tips on even where to start.

Thanks Dave

[barryd]

Try Google and enter

Goa Genealogy

Or try Catholic records in any of these countries.

Most records in many of these counties exist for expatriates only. The best records I have seen in this area are from Ceylon which is a little more inclusive.

[GrahamSimons]

The Kenya Gazette (similar in function to the London Gazette) is digitised and online: might be worth a search using "Kenya Gazette" as one of the search terms. If no joy with your usual search engine, do try another, you never know.
As far as I know newspapers aren't digitised; many issues, but not all, of the Standard are in the British Library collection, but not indexed, so you really would be looking for a needle in many haystacks.