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Available for searching or reading online at Fully searchable editions covering various years can be found Online. See [[http://books.google.com/books?id=x_8nAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22east+india+register%22 Google BooksDirectories_online#East-India_Register|our index to volumes]]. May also be downloaded.
More online editions are available for searching, reading online or downloading at Google Books. See [[Directories_online#East-India_Register|our index to volumes]].
This PDF facsimile is out of production in the UK, but can be found at [http://www.archivecdbooks.com.au Archive CD Books Australia] or [http://www.archivecdbooks.ie Archive CD Books Ireland] or [http://www.archivecdbooksusa.com Archive CD Books USA]
→Guide to directories
This booklet provides an invaluable guide to the printed directories available on people who lived or served in British India, with examples of the kind of information useful to family historians to be found in them. Written by Richard Morgan, whom many will know from his articles in family history journals on genealogical research relating to India, it is in his characteristically brisk and down-to-earth style, and full of practical advice on how to get the best out of these important sources. In particular he draws attention to the sometimes underestimated Thacker's ''Indian Directory'' which so often comes to the rescue when your ancestor was a 'non-official' and therefore omitted from almost all the official records. All the directories discussed are readily available at the British Library and directions are given on locating them elsewhere. (reviewed by David Blake, FIBIS Trustee)
Available from the [httphttps://www.new.fibis.org/products-page/2-fibis-books-and-publications/fibis-fact-files/bff-0003-indian-directories-by-richard-morganstore/ FIBIS Bookshop]
==General Indian directories==
* ''The Bengal or East-India calendar''. [Online version] 1795
This early directory includes details for Madras, Bombay etc. and is part of a number of directories from the late 1700’s available on the website [http://www.gale.cengage.com/DigitalCollections/products/ecco/index.htm Eighteenth Century Collections Online] (ECCO- A part of Gale Digital Collections).The access is restricted to library card holders (usually residents) of participating Libraries, including the National Libraries of [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/er/index.html Scotland], [http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=otherresourcesa-z Wales], [http://www.nli.ie/en/eresources.aspx Ireland], [http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/list/licenced/e Australia], [http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/athome.cfm State Library of NSW], and many Universities. ECCO may also be accessed from the British Library Reading Rooms.
* ''The East India kalendar; or, Asiatic register for Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Fort Marlborough, China, and St. Helena''. [Online version] 1791, 1797
These very early editions of the ''East-India register'' are part of a number of directories from the late 1700’s available on the website [http://www.gale.cengage.com/DigitalCollections/products/ecco/index.htm Eighteenth Century Collections Online] (ECCO- A part of Gale Digital Collections).- see note above under ''The access is restricted to library card holders (usually residentsBengal or East-India calendar'') of participating Libraries, including the National Libraries of [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/er/index.html Scotland], [http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=otherresourcesa-z Wales], [http://www.nli.ie/en/eresources.aspx Ireland], [http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/list/licenced/e Australia], [http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/athome.cfm State Library of NSW], and many Universities.Most of the original books are in the British Library. ECCO may also be accessed from the British Library Reading Rooms.
* ''An East-India register and directory''. [Microform] 1803-1860
The EIRs provide complete lists of the servants (employees) of the East India Company both at home and abroad including civilians, military and marine personnel, also Europeans and mariners with interests in India, but not in the service of the Company, for a particular year. The EIRs were superceded by ''The India list''.
The [[LDS]] (Mormon) Family Search Library has many editions from 1803 to 1860 in microfilm format listed in its [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=778871 Library Catalogue]. This [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=778871 page] from the Catalogue shows the various titles which are included in the series and will be available to view at a local [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp Family History Center]. The EIRs were superceded by ''The India list''.
* ''The East-India register and directory''(Digitised editions). [Online version] London: Cox and Bayliss, 1819
* ''The East India register & Thacker's Indian directory 18301895''. [CD-Rom] Cinderford: Archive CD Books, 2003 **This PDF facsimile is out of production in the UK, but directory can now be found at [http://www.archivecdbooks.com.au Archive CD Books Australia] searched or [http://www.archivecdbooks.ie Archive CD Books Ireland] or [http://www.archivecdbooksusa.com Archive CD Books USA] * ''The East India register & directory 1844''. [CD-Rom] Cinderford: Archive CD Books, 2005 This PDF facsimile is out of production in the UK, but can be found browsed online at [http://wwwsearch.archivecdbooksancestry.comco.au Archive CD Books Australia] or [http:uk/search/wwwdb.archivecdbooks.ie Archive CD Books Ireland] or [http://www.archivecdbooksusa.com Archive CD Books USA] * ''The East-India register and army list''. [Online version] London: W.H. Allen Many editions are available for searching, reading online or downloading at Google Books. See [[Directories_online#East-India_Register|our index to volumes]]. * ''East India registers DVD collection''. [DVD] Dewsbury: Your Old Books & Maps, 2007. This contains on one DVD ''The East India register & directory 1806'', ''The East-India register and directory 1827'', ''The East India register & directory 1836'', and ''The East India & Army list 1851'' as searchable PDF facsimiles. Each year on this DVD, plus others, are also available from [http://youroldbooksandmapsaspx?dbid=31426 Ancestry.co.uk Your Old Books & Maps] as individual CD-Roms or pre-pay downloads. * ''Thacker's Indian directory 1895''. [CD-Rom] Cinderford: Archive CD Books, 2002
Thacker's annual directories are the most comprehensive of all the Indian directories.
