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==Bengal Directory==
Also see [[Directories online#Calcutta|Calcutta]] below.
<br> For early editions c 1800 and before, see [[Directories online#East-India Register & Directory|East-India Register & Directory]] below.
<br>There were various titles over time including
:''Bengal Almanac and Annual Directory'' 1815-1823; ''The New Annual Bengal Directory and Calcutta Kalendar'' eg 1823, 1824; ''Bengal Directory and General Register'' 1824-1834; ''Bengal Directory and Annual Register'' 1835-1842; ''Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer'' (probably 1841-42 only); ''Bengal and Agra Directory and Annual Register'' 1843-1853;'' Bengal Directory and Annual Register'' 1854-1858; ''Thacker’s Directory for Bengal'' 1865-1868; ''Bengal Directory'', published by Thacker, also known as ''Thacker’s Bengal Directory'' 1869-1884.
:Search for titles using simple terms such as Bombay Directory, Bombay Almanac.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433003306077?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '''1822'''] Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433003306077?urlappend=%3Bseq=307 Marriages Births and Deaths in 1821], page 113 of the Appendix. [https://archive.org/details/bombay-calendar-1822/page/n7/mode/2up '''1822'''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b28739590/page/n5/mode/2up '''1837'''] Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Jt0X3wfBbZgC&pg=PP3 '''1842'''] Google Books, [https://archive.org/details/bombay-calendar-1842 Archive.org mirror version].
:Another title [https://archive.org/details/bombayalmanacdir1842unse/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Bombay almanac, directory and register for the year '''1842'''''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.36932/page/n7/mode/2up '''1843'''] Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088753710?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Bombay Agenda, or Almanac and Directory for '''1845'''''] HathiTrust Digital Library. Includes [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088753710?urlappend=%3Bseq=398 Alphabetical List of the European, Indo-British and Portuguese Inhabitants of Bombay , its vicinity and the Mofussil], page 48 of the "Bombay Directory" Part 3rd. [https://archive.org/details/bombay-agenda-1845/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*''The Bombay Commercial Calendar And General Directory''
**'''1845''' Contents, digital page 8; Contents 2nd Part, Services Calendar (separately numbered), digital page 18; European and East Indian Inhabitants , page 69, digital page 144; Shipping, pages 470-508, digital pages 538-578; Domestic Occurrences for 1844 Births, page 509, digital page 579, Marriages page 514, digital page 584, deaths, page 518, digital page 588. Part 2 commences digital page 595. Apothecaries, 2nd Section page 157, digital page 757. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68607 Archive.org ].
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.40551/page/n1/mode/2up '''1848'''] Archive.org
*''The Bombay Almanacand Book of Direction''**[https://archive.org/details/bombayalmanac-1850/page/n1/mode/2up '''1850'''] Archive.org
**'''1851''' Contents digital page 9. Mostly general information. Estates Administered by the Ecclesiastical Registrar Bombay page 195, digital page 256. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68606 Archive.org].
**'''1852''' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109657 Archive.org] *''The Bombay Calendar and Almanac''**[https://archive.org/details/bombay-calendar-1853/page/n5/mode/2up '''1853'''] Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/bombay-calendar-1855/page/n3/mode/2up '''1855'''] Archive.org**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433003306085 '''1856'''] Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. Includes [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433003306085?urlappend=%3Bseq=353 List of European and East Indian Inhabitants], page 283 . [https://archive.org/details/bombay-calendar-1856/page/n11/mode/2up '''1856'''] Archive.org
*''The Bombay Almanack and Book of Direction''
**[https://archive.org/details/bombayalmanack1858/page/n17/mode/2up '''1858'''] Archive.org
**'''1860''' Contents, digital page 10; Apothecaries, page 484, digital page 535. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109760 Archive.org].
**'''1861''' 12th Annual Publication. Contents, digital page 22; Apothecaries, page 512, digital page 563. Catalogued as ''The Bombay Almanack and Directory for 1861''. Print quality is poor. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83805 Archive.org].
*''The Bombay Almanack and Directory''
**'''1863'''. 14th Annual Publication. There are two files. The print quality is poor for both, but the second version is probably better.
***Barcode ...226 Contents, digital page 20; Apothecaries page 674, digital page 723. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109738 Archive.org].
***Barcode ...231 Contents, digital page 20; Apothecaries page 674, digital page 719. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109771 Archive.org].
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00935 '''1865'''] 16th Annual Publication. Archive.org, mirror from Ministry Of Culture/Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83821 2nd file] Archive.org. The following description is in respect of the 2nd file. Unfortunately the pages after page 583 are missing. Contents, digital page 12; Alphabetical Index, digital page 26; Alphabetical List of HM Uncovenanted Civil Servants, page 296, digital page 335; List of the Principal European, Indo-Briton and Portuguese Mofussil Residents page 381, digital page 420; List of ditto in the Town and Suburbs of Bombay, page 428, digital page 465; Births, Marriages and Deaths, page 572, digital page 607. Book ends page 583, Deaths to Fenton.
** '''1868''' Index, digital page 6; Inhabitants Local, page 745, digital page 796; Inhabitants Mofussil, page 798, digital page 847. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83822 Archive.org].
*''A Guide to Bombay, Historical, Statistical and Descriptive'' by James Mackenzie Maclean includes ''Part 2 Bombay Directory''
==East-India Register & Directory==
Note that in 1844 the title changed to ''The East-India Register and Army List''.
This publication contains Civil Service and Army Lists, in addition to other information.
The volumes below are mainly from Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org and National Library of India Digital Collection websites.
Ancestry, pay website, includes a number of searchable and browsable editions of the ''East-India Register'', (listed under three variants of the title), generally the 1st edition for the year, published in January, together with some additional publications, including some pre 1800, in the database [https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61468 UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939], located in Schools, Directories & Church Histories. Additionally, there are separate databases for [https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=35005 East India Register and Directory for 1830 [2nd edition<nowiki>]</nowiki>], and [https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=31425 The East India Register & Directory, 1844]. Note, some local libraries, and genealogical societies, provide free access to Ancestry, for residents/members, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].
1782 title is ''A List of the Company's civil servants, at their settlements in the East-Indies, the Island St. Helena, and China''.
<br>1787, 1790 title is ''The Bengal Calendar''<br>Another 1787 title is ''The Bengal Register''
<br>1788, 1789 title is ''Bengal Calendar'' but includes other regions. Similarly for 1792 and 1795 (on Ancestry).
<br>1792 title is ''East India Kalendar or Asiatic Register for the Year 1792''. Similarly for 1797 (on Ancestry). For access to this publication for additional years, see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]].
<br>Another 1795 title is ''The Bengal Kalendar and Register''<br> 1801 title is ''The New East India Kalendar'' (on Ancestry)<br>1800 tile is ''The Bengal Kalendar and Almanack''
<br>1802 title is ''A New Oriental Register, and East India Directory for 1802''
|1782 Ancestry
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|[https://archive.org/details/bengal-calandar-1787/page/n5/mode/2up 1787''The Bengal Calendar''][https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-bengal-register-con_east-india-company_1787 1787 ''The Bengal Register'']
|[https://archive.org/details/bengal-calandar-1788/page/n7/mode/2up 1788]
|[https://archive.org/details/bengal-calendar-1789/page/n11/mode/2up 1789]
|[https://archive.org/stream/b2874844x#page/n5/mode/2up 1792]
1792 Ancestry
|[https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-bengal-kalendar-and-_1795 1795 ''The Bengal Kalendar and Register'']1795 Ancestry |1795 1797 Ancestry
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|1797 Ancestry[https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-bengal-kalendar-and-_1800 1800]
|1801 Ancestry
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WflAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP11 1802] GB
1819 Ancestry
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|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140636?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 1820 2nd edition]HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister-1820-2/page/n11/mode/2up 1820 2nd edition] Archive.org;
1820 Ancestry
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=eAULAQAAIAAJ 1821 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister-1821-2/page/n9/mode/2up 1821 2nd edition] Archive.org;
1821 Ancestry
|1822 Ancestry
1822 M
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=SAYLAQAAIAAJ 1823 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister-1823-2/page/n9/mode/2up 1823 2nd edition] Archive.org;
1823 Ancestry
|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140639 1824]HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister-1824/page/n23/mode/2up 1824] Archive.org,
1824 Ancestry
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=uwMLAQAAIAAJ 1825 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister-1825-2e/page/n9/mode/2up 1825 2nd edition] Archive.org|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140641?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1826]HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1826/page/n7/mode/2up 1826] Archive.org, 1826 Ancestry|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140643?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1827 likely to be 2nd edition] HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1827-2e/page/n9/mode/2up 1827 2nd edition]Archive.org, 1827 Ancestry|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140644?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1828]HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1828/page/n9/mode/2up 1828] Archive.org, 1828 Ancestry; [http://books.google.com/books?id=fAQLAQAAIAAJ 1828 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1828-2e/page/n7/mode/2up 1828 2nd edition] Archive.org1828 Ancestry|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1829]HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1829/page/n9/mode/2up 1829] Archive.org; [http://books.google.com/books?id=2gQLAQAAIAAJ 1829 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1829-2e/page/n9/mode/2up 1829 2nd edition] Archive.org
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|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140649?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1830 2nd edition]HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1830-2e/page/n7/mode/2up 1830 2nd edition] Archive.org, 1830, 2nd edition Ancestry <br>(separate database)
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1831 M
|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140650?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1832]HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1832/page/n9/mode/2up 1832] Archive.org, 1832 Ancestry
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|[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19889/page/n5 1834 2nd edition]Archive.org
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|[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.22563/page/n5 1835 2nd edition]Archive.org
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|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140651?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 1837 2nd edition] HT, [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.14158/page/n5 1837 2nd edition] Archive.org,
1837 Ancestry
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|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140653?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 1839]HT, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1839/page/n11/mode/2up 1839] Archive.org
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1841 M
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=zwYLAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1842]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1842/page/n11/mode/2up 1842] Archive.org|[http://books.google.com/books?id=PgcLAQAAIAAJ 1843]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1843/page/n11/mode/2up 1843] Archive.org; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pQcLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1843 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1843-2e/page/n9/mode/2up 1843 2nd edition] Archive. org|[http://books.google.com/books?id=4gcLAQAAIAAJ 1844 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1844-2e/page/n9/mode/2up 1844 2nd edition] Archive.org
1844 Ancestry
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|[https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregist00britgoog 1845], Archive.org;[http://books.google.com/books?id=L3QIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 1845 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1845-2e/page/n9/mode/2up 1845 2nd edition] Archive.org|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bkhFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 1846]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1846/page/n9/mode/2up 1846] Archive.org; [http://books.google.com/books?id=0AgLAQAAIAAJ 1846 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1846-2e/page/n9/mode/2up 1846 2nd edition] Archive.org|[http://books.google.com/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ 1847]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1847/page/n9/mode/2up 1847] Archive.org, 1847 Ancestry
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=KgkoAAAAYAAJ 1849]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1849/page/n9/mode/2up 1849] Archive.org, 1849 Ancestry; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TAkLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 1849, 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1849-2e/page/n7/mode/2up 1849, 2nd edition] Archive.org.1849 Ancestry
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/69863 1850] FamilySearch Must be signed in to FS to view.[https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1850 1850] Archive.org, 1850 Ancestry;<br>[http://books.google.com/books?id=VTUoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1850 2nd edition]GB, [https://archive.org/details/eastindiaregister1850-2e/page/n9/mode/2up 1850 2nd edition] Archive.org<br>1850 Ancestry
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=0gkLAQAAIAAJ 1851]
1851 Ancestry
**''The Hyderabad Almanac and Directory for '''1892'''''. No contents page. List of Principal European and Anglo-Indian Residents in Hyderabad computer page 170. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109860 Archive.org version]. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02977/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file, 1892] Archive.org.
**'''''1936''' Hyderabad Directory'' Contents, computer page 5; Who's Who, computer page 226; Lawyers, computer page 282 Doctors, page 291. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83773 Archive.org version].
*''The Classified List Of Officers Of Civil Department
H.E.H.The Nizams Government'' [http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/17158 '''1932'''], [http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/17409 '''1934'''], [http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/17140 '''1939'''] are available to download as pdfs on OUDL (Osmania University Digital Library). :[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Classified+List+Nizams%29&sort=-date ''The Classified List of Officers of the Civil Departments Of H E H The Nizam’s Government'']. A broken range of editions 1928 to 1940s. Also [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.107372/page/n1/mode/2up 1919]. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
==India List and India Office List==
