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==Records==
The [[British Library]] webpage [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/history/genealogy/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/willsandadministrations/willsadmin.html Wills and Administration] lists sources in the [[India Office Records]].  Note that if you are searching for a person who lived outside of Calcutta and the other capitals, up-country, in the Mofussil, they will probably be found in the records of the District Courts, not the Supreme Courts.
==FIBIS resources==
==FIBIS resources==
The following information is available on the FIBIS Search database.
The following information is available on the FIBIS Search database.
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*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=14&s_id=30 Limited Administration Act Books] relating to India 1830 to 1839
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=14&s_id=30 Limited Administration Act Books] relating to India 1830 to 1839


If you want to obtain a copy of a will, to which you have found a reference in FIBIS’s transcriptions from the British Library’s India Office records, this [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecords/indiafamilyresearch/iofamilyresearch.html India Office Records link] gives contact details at the very bottom of the webpage. A researcher advised that the CD  she received from the British Library containing the will could not be read by her computer so she needed to contact her local computer shop, which cost her more, so enquire which versions are available.
If you want to obtain a copy of a will that you have found a reference for in FIBIS’s transcriptions, you will ned to visit or contact the [[British Library]].  


==External Links==
==External Links==
British Library webpage [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/history/genealogy/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/willsandadministrations/willsadmin.html Wills and Administration]  with sources from the India Office Records<br>
*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=+Probate+India&prekeyword=+Probate+India Microfilms in the Family History Library] - a list obtained by a keyword search ('probate, India') of filmed India Office records in the [[LDS]] (Mormon) Family History Library Catalogue.
Note that if you are searching for a person who lived out of Calcutta and the other capitals, up-country, in the mofussil, they will probably be found in the records of the District Courts, not the Supreme Courts
 


The LDS (Mormon) Family History Library Catalogue contains many films of records which originated in the India Office. This [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=+Probate+India&prekeyword=+Probate+India link], obtained by a keyword search for : Probate, India lists them out
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Revision as of 20:44, 22 September 2009

Records

The British Library webpage Wills and Administration lists sources in the India Office Records. Note that if you are searching for a person who lived outside of Calcutta and the other capitals, up-country, in the Mofussil, they will probably be found in the records of the District Courts, not the Supreme Courts.

FIBIS resources

The following information is available on the FIBIS Search database.

If you want to obtain a copy of a will that you have found a reference for in FIBIS’s transcriptions, you will ned to visit or contact the British Library.

External Links