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Welcome to Fibiwiki - an encyclopaedia about life in British India
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Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947. If you have information to contribute, or would like to help edit fibiwiki, please contact Valmay to arrange for an account to be set up for you to enable you to log in and edit Fibiwiki. If you don't have information to contribute enjoy reading the articles on this website.

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The Fibiwiki is like an encyclopaedia. The best way to find things is to type your subject of interest into the Search Box on the top-right of your screen. As you type a drop-down list of pages are suggested. Click on a suggested page to view it or click the very bottom of the list where it says containing to view every mention of the search term in fibiwiki.

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Wounded Indian Army Troops at Lady Hardinge Hospital for Wounded Indian Soldiers in Brokenhurst, Hampshire.

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First World War

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Postcards Project - The aim of this project is to improve the Fibiwiki content and coverage of postcards in British India. If you would like to join the project please add your name to the list of project members. If you would like to add postcards to the wiki, but don't have a free fibiwiki account contact the FIBIS Webmaster to arrange for one to be set up for you.

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-Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947. If you don't have information to contribute, please enjoy reading the articles on this website.
+Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947. If you have information to contribute, or would like to help edit fibiwiki, please contact [mailto:Valmay@fibis.org Valmay] to arrange for an account to be set up for you to enable you to log in and edit Fibiwiki. If you don't have information to contribute enjoy reading the articles on this website.
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-The FIBIwiki is like an encyclopaedia. The best way to find things is to type your subject of interest into the Search Box in the left-hand navigation panel and see what data is available on our site.
+The Fibiwiki is like an encyclopaedia. The best way to find things is to type your subject of interest into the Search Box on the top-right of your screen. As you type a drop-down list of pages are suggested. Click on a suggested page to view it or click the very bottom of the list where it says ''containing'' to view every mention of the search term in fibiwiki.
-*Clicking on '''Go''' will take you to the page of that name, if there is one
-*Clicking on '''Search''' will show you a list of pages that mention that search term
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-Bahawal Victoria Hospital (1906) (formerly Civil Hospital, 1867, [[Bahawalpur]], [[Pakistan]].
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-The aim of this project is to improve the Fibiwiki content and coverage on Locations in British India. If you would like to join the project please add your name to the [[FibiwikiProject Locations/Members|list of project members]].
+[[FibiwikiProject Postcards|Postcards Project]] - The aim of this project is to improve the Fibiwiki content and coverage of postcards in British India. If you would like to join the project please add your name to the [[FibiwikiProject Postcards/Members|list of project members]]. If you would like to add postcards to the wiki, but don't have a free fibiwiki account contact the  [mailto:fibis-webmaster@fibis.org FIBIS Webmaster] to arrange for one to be set up for you.
-Many of the railway pages have been created already and are now waiting for information to be added about operations, traffic, stations, staff, apprentices, colonies, institutes, schools etc. For a list of pages aleady created go to the [[:Category:Locations]] page. </div>
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+If you would like to add data of value to the wiki and feel that you are able to do this, but would like us to do it for you, please contact the  [mailto:fibis-webmaster@fibis.org FIBIS Webmaster].
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