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If your ancestors were baptised, married or buried in a European church in British India, then the [[church records]] should have been transcribed and you can access these records at the [[British Library]] in London, or at [[LDS]] [[Family History Centres]]. The FIBIS database contains many transcribed BMD records.
If your ancestors were married in a [[Registrar marriages|Registry Office]], then these records will be included with the church record indexes. FIBIS volunteers have transcribed the Registry Office index and this is on the [httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=4&s_id=102 FIBIS database]. Further details with images of regsitry pages ca be found on the subscription website [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast]. Details of Registry Office marriages are not available on microfilm through the [[LDS]].
Some records of the births of Jewish people were included in the [[church records]] for the Bombay Presidency. It would seem that Jewish parents submitted a letter from their Rabbi or other figure of authority certifying that the individual was born on a certain day at a certain place. These letters were then included with the regular church records. Later, this 'registration' could then be used as proof of British citizenship. This does not seem to have been a very widespread practice. However, if you are at a loss to find a record of your ancestor, it may be worth examining the indexes to the [[church records]] of the Presidency in which they resided.
*[http://www.jacobsassoon.com Sassoon Synagogues of Mumbai & Pune]. Three synagogues, two in Bombay and one at Poona, are still ongoing, and contact details for the group are provided on the website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110219144254/http://sephardiclibrary.org/genealogy.html Online records from Rangoon and Calcutta Grave records] from the National Sephardic Library (Genealogy) of the American Sephardi Federation, now archived. Five datasets of birth records from Rangoon, see [[Burma]], and [[Cemeteries in Calcutta]] for individual links.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/mizrahi-jewish-genealogy "Mizrahi Jews: A Minority of a Minority"] May 8, 2022 FamilySearch Blog. Advises "The term Mizrahi describes Jews from North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, including parts of India and Turkey. Mizrahi Jews are of Babylonian and Persian heritage", and "Among Mizrahi Jews was the Sassoon family of Baghdad", who immigrated to India and important financial centers in other eastern countries.
*From the catalogue of the [http://search.cjh.org:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=beta Centre for Jewish History], New York and available through the American Sephardi Federation:
**Birth Register Book: Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue Rangoon. Published 1979 In English, available from 1896. In Hebrew, available from 1888. The English records may be the same as the online Rangoon records in the previous link.
===Historical books online===
*"The Jewish Merchant-Colony in Madras (Fort St. George) during the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Contribution to the Economic and Social History of the Jews in India" by Walter J. Fischel ''Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Apr., 1960)'', pp. 78-107 and ''Vol. 3, No. 2 (Aug., 1960)'', pp. 175-195 may be read online for free on the website JSTOR, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3596030 Part 1], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3596295 Part 2]. Registration with JSTOR is required, or some card holders of participating libraries may have access, and limits may apply, refer [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Also available at the [[British Library]].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55396/page/n19/mode/2up "The Racial Affinities of the Jews of Cochin"] by Eileen W Erlanson Macfarlane page 1, ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Letters'' Volume III 1937 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461583 ''The Origin And History Of The Calcutta Jews''] by I S Abraham, 1963. Archive.org
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