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*[[FamilySearch Centres#Ordering microfilms|Ordering microfilms]].
::'''Update''': Microfilm ordering services ceases 31 August 2017, however selected microfilms have been digitised and are currently available for viewing on a FamilySearch computer at a FamilySearch Centre. Locate these records through the FamilySearch catalogue. It is expected that in time all microfilms will be similarly available in this format.
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The Biographical Records series is classified as India Office Records Series O which is briefly explained in the two following links , now archived, from the British Library’s Help for Researchers*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180205020201/http://www.bl.uk:80/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/biog/indiabiog.html Biographical Records series] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180825042024/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecords/indiaofficearrangement/indiaofficearrangedrecord.html#OHead Class O of the India Office Records]
==IOR O/5==
The records IOR O/5/1-31 are available on [[LDS]] microfilm, with this [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/733538 catalogue entry]. The description of the records is:
The records for Bengal found in IOR O/5/25-31 include many [[Indigo Plantation|indigo planters]], including some from [[French|France]]. Although the records generally do not cover the East India Company's employees, there are 1818, 1819 and 1820 Lists of Madras [[Indian Civil Service#Records|uncovenanted civil servants]] to be found in this series. The heading at the top of the 1820 List is
"List of Uncovenanted Europeans employed in the Honble Company's Service under the Presidency of Fort St George with a Statement of the Allowances drawn by them as it stood on the 30th April 1820". (Refer below)
Those microfilms which have been digitised are viewable at FamilySearch Centres and FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries, see [[FamilySearch Centres]].
Microfilms 2104564-2104568 are available at the [[Society of Genealogists]] in London, in addition to the Family History Library, Salt Lake City. They were previously permanently available at the FamilySearch Centre at Parramatta, Sydney, Australia, see [[FamilySearch Centres]] for possible current location of these microfilms due to the closure of Parramatta. According to the FamilySearch catalogue entry at 2020/06/29, although digitised, these records are only viewable on microfilm.
==IOR O/6==
The records IOR O/6-39 are available on [[LDSFamilySearch]] microfilm, with this[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F775516 775516 catalogue entry: Personal records, 1794-1841 India Office. Biographical series]. Those microfilms which have been digitised are viewable at FamilySearch Centres and FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries, see [[FamilySearch Centres]].
The index film is 2029173 Items 5-6. This may possibly be applicable for only for some of the records, perhaps IOR O/6/1-12 as "Z/0/6/-12" (Z being an index record) is mentioned in the film notes.
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=892&s_id=56 Lists of Free Merchants, Seafaring Men and other Inhabitants of Bombay and surrounds from 1720-1780]. Some records are for [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_login.php logged in] FIBIS members only
*List of Uncovenanted Europeans Employed at Fort St George [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=989&s_id=873 1818], [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=990&s_id=873 1819] (logged in FIBIS members only), [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=991&s_id=873 1820] (logged in FIBIS members only) are available on the FIBIS database, transcribed by Sylvia Murphy
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