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*[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1897 "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976"], This is part of Newspapers and Periodicals section of Ancestry database and holds some genealogical information relating to countries in East Africa.
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==Also see==
*[[General Register Office]] [United Kingdom] for general information about birth, marriage and death records for British nationals abroad.
*[[Society of Genealogists]], London for details of some records from Africa, including inscriptions from Basutoland, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone and Uganda.
*[[East Africa (First World War)]]
*[[POW Camps in India]]. During WW1, some German civilians were transferred from East Africa to camps at [[Ahmadnagar| Ahmednagar]] and [[Belgaum]] in India
===Records===
*Also see [[East Africa#External links|External links]], below.
*Officers will generally be mentioned in the ''London Gazette'', and British ''Army List''s. It appears they are more likely to be mentioned in the official War Office publications ''Quarterly'' and ''Monthly Army List''s, or listed with more detail, compared with the commercial ''Army List''s. For more details of these publications, see [[British Army#Records|British Army - Records]]. As an (online) example: September 1919 ''Monthly List'', under "Special Lists", lists King's African Rifles officers in Staff, 1st-7th Regiments, Signal Company and Pay Department.<ref>[https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/123797119 September 1919 ''Monthly List''], page 2518 digital.nls.uk.</ref>
*A researcher found an officer of the Uganda Rifles 1901-2 mentioned in [[The National Archives]] record "Africa: Protectorate staff lists (East Africa, Uganda, Somali Coast, Central Africa, King's African Rifles), 1896-1905 FO 403/556"<ref>LeoHickman. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180607005433/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=12425 2nd Lt John Simeon WARD - Uganda Rifles (1899-1903)] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 5 June 2018, now archived. Retrieved 27 August 2019.</ref>
*Record of the 3rd Battalion [King's African Rifles] during the campaign in East Africa TNA WO 106/273
*''The Story of the East African Mounted Rifles'' by C.J. Wilson 1938. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01009620624. Also available in a reprint edition.<ref>[https://www.leonaur.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=25 ''The Story of the East African Mounted Rifles''] by C.J. Wilson leonaur.com.</ref>
*''The Rhodesian African Rifles'' by Christopher Owen 1970. Series: ''Famous regiments''. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002736055
====Regimental articles====
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/452201.html "Narunya 1917: 1st/2nd KAR (The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the King’s African Rifles) in the Narunyu Action. German East Africa, 18th September 1917"] by Harry Fecitt from Harry's Africa. kaiserscross.com
*[https://gweaa.com/th-battalion-of-th-regiment-uganda-of-kings-african-rifles-great-war/ "The 4th Battalion of the 4th Regiment (Uganda) of the Kings African Rifles in the Great War"] by Harry Fecitt March 21, 2011. gweaa.com. 4th Regiment, recruited from Uganda, started the Great War with only one battalion. By the end of the war the 4th Regiment had six battalions. 4/4 KAR was initially based at Mbagathi, outside Nairobi in British East Africa (now Kenya). This was a massive depot where recruit training was centralised for all the KAR regiments except the 1st. 1 KAR continued to use its bases in Nyasaland (now Malawi).
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25779137?seq=1 ""The Polish White Infusion": Polish Officers In Britain's Royal West African Frontier Force, 1941-1945"] by Michael S. Healy ''The Polish Review'' Vol. 44, No. 3 (1999), pp. 277-293 jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free, (limits apply) see [[Miscellaneous tips]].
==External links==
*FamilySearch, a free website provided by the LDS (Mormon) Church has a category [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list?fcs=region%3AAFRICA&ec=region%3AAFRICA Africa], mainly consisting of transcribed records. Alternatively, from the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/ Map], click on Africa, then select relevant country. It is necessary to be signed in to [[FamilySearch]] to view any records. In addition, [https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search Search the Catalog] for digitised microfilms relating to Africa. Countries are catalogued according to their modern name. For more about digitised microfilms, see [[FamilySearch]] and [[FamilySearch Centres]].*[[Findmypast]] and Ancestry, both pay websites may have relevant records. See [[South Africa]] for links to record sets/databases.**[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1897 "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976"], This is part of the Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish, section of pay website Ancestry database and holds some genealogical information relating to countries in East Africa.*[http://www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk Europeans In East Africa]. The database holds information on people of European origin who lived and worked in East Africa from about 1880 to 1939. It concentrates mainly on Kenya, but there are some entries for Uganda and Tanzania.
*[http://www.eamemorials.co.uk/index.html East African Cemeteries and Memorials]. Includes cemeteries from
**Kenya
**Tanzania
**Uganda
*[https://www.findagrave.com Find a Grave] includes some African records.*There may be a relevant Ancestry Message Board:[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/ Search all Ancestry Message Boards]. You do not need to be an Ancestry subscriber, but to post, you must register with Ancestry.*Rootsweb Mailing Lists. From March 2nd, 2020 all Rootsweb Mailing Listshave been discontinued. Mailing list archives will remain available and searchable.**:[https://mailinglistslists.rootsweb.com/listindexeshyperkitty/details?country=Kenya#AFR-KENYA KenyaSearch all Rootsweb Mailing List Archives] **::[https://mailinglistslists.rootsweb.com/listindexeshyperkitty/details?country=Tanzania,%20United%20Republic%20of#AFRlist/afr-TANZANIA Tanzaniakenya.rootsweb.com/ Search the Kenya List Archives]**::[https://mailinglistslists.rootsweb.com/listindexeshyperkitty/list/afr-tanzania.rootsweb.com/details?country=Africa#AFRICA AfricaSearch the Tanzania List Archives]**::[https://mailinglistslists.rootsweb.com/listindexeshyperkitty/list/details?country=Uganda#AFR-UGANDA Uganda]africa. Currently inactiverootsweb. Currently (2018com/09) there are no archives accessible, but Search the archives of past posts may become available in the future.Africa List Archives]
*[https://www.genealogy.com/forum/regional/countries/topics/kenya/ Genealogy.com Kenya Forum] Archived posts only. Does not appear to be currently active.
*J Gordon Mumford’s [https://web.archive.org/web/20130206083230/http://www.gordonmumford.com/eastafrica/index.htm African Adventures] now archived
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080915122721/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/index.php?cat=1 Trace and tell your family’s Empire stories] with links to pages "Government Records of Britons in …" including
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001725/http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/category/chapters/index.php?cat=1&country=37 Government Records of Britons in Kenya]
:There is a "Resources" chapter in the book ''Empire’s Children: Trace Your Family History Across the World'' by Anton Gill 2007, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013623894 . This book accompanied the television series ''Empire's Children''.
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia_Regiment Rhodesia Regiment] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA556553 ''The Rhodesian African Rifles: The Growth and Adaptation of a Multicultural Regiment through the Rhodesian Bush War, 1965-1980''] by Major Michael P Stewart. Master’s Thesis 2011 US Army Command and General Staff College. Contains a brief history of the Regiment prior to 1965. Archive.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160513131945/http://britishcolonialafrica.com/index.html British Colonial History in Africa], now an archived website. Links to a number of articles (Monographsi) and to a page listing the contents of the first seven editions of the ''Journal of the Royal West African Frontier Force'' which was published twice yearly from July 2011. At 2019/9, Cambridge University has all volumes to v. 2, no. 6 (2018 Dec.) , while Oxford University appears to have Volume 1, issues 1-6 and 10, Volume 2, issues 1-7 (2019 July).
===Maps===
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1sizo659wZMC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 ''The Kenya Gazette''] Issues from 1899. (broken range). There is a small tool bar which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916 . There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books
:''The Kenya Gazette'' is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.
*[https://archive.org/details/newaccuratedescr00bosm/page/n5 ''A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory coasts''] by Willem Bosman, Chief Factor for the Dutch at the Castle of St. George d’Elmina. 1907 reprint of original 1705 edition translated from the c 1703 Dutch edition. Archive.org. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GblfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP11 1705 edition] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/englishestablish00mart/page/n3 "The English Establishments on the Gold Coast in the second half of the eighteenth century"] by Eveline C Martin 1922. Archive.org. An article from ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'' 4th Series 1922, pages 167-189. Also included "Note on Manuscript Sources and Bibliography" pages 190-208.
*[https://archive.org/details/forestfield00hall/page/n9 ''The Forest and the Field''] by H. A. L. The "Old Shekarry" 1867. Archive.org. India and Africa.
:[https://archive.org/details/wrinklesorhintst00halhiala/page/n4 ''Wrinkles; or, Hints to sportsmen and travellers on dress, equipment, and camp life''] by The Old Shekarry [Henry Astbury Leveson], a New Edition 1874. Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iTM6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP13 ''Campaigning in Western Africa and the Ashantee Invasion of 1874''] by Captain E Rogers 1874 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/coomassiemagdala00stan/page/n8 ''Coomassie and Magdala : the Story of two British Campaigns in Africa''] by Henry M. Stanley 1874 Archive.org. The Third Anglo-Ashanti War, also known as the "First Ashanti Expedition", took place 1873-1874 in the interior of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Coomassie is now known as Kumasi. The author was Special Correspondent of the ''New York Herald''.
*[https://archive.org/details/landofgolddiamon00ingr ''The Land of Gold, Diamonds and Ivory; being a Comprehensive Handbook and Guide to the Colonies, States and Republics of South and East Africa''] by J F Ingram 1889 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028595944 ''British East Africa; or, IBEA; a history of the formation and work of the Imperial British East Africa Company''] by P L McDermott 1893 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005C910 ''Handbook of British East Africa, including Zanzibar, Uganda, and the territory of the Imperial British East Africa Company''] Prepared in the Intelligence Division, War Office. 1893. [By Captain H. J. Foster, R.E.] Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division. London : HMSO Stationery Office, 1893.
*[https://archive.org/details/biggameshooting01philiala/page/n7/mode/2up ''Big Game Shooting, Volume I''] by Clive Phillipps-Wolley 1894 Archive.org. Part of ''The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes''.
*[https://archive.org/details/withmountedinfan00alde/page/n7/mode/2up ''With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force, 1896''] by E A H Alderson, (Edwin Alfred Hervey) 1898 Archive.org. The location became part of Southern Rhodesia, now northern Zimbabwe.
:[https://archive.org/details/inserviceofrache0000mars_p4k5/page/n5/mode/2up ''Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-7: a study in African resistance''] by T. O. Ranger 1967 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishafrica00johnuoft/page/n7 ''British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi''] by Sir Harry H Johnston 1897 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/britishafrica00johnuoft/page/98 Page 98]. A small force of Indian troops was engaged as a nucleus for the police force in Central Africa, from the [[23rd Punjab Pioneers|23rd]] and 32nd Pioneers, and Haiderabad Lancers.
:[https://archive.org/details/beninmassacre00bois_0/page/n3 ''The Benin Massacre''] by Captain Alan Boisragon 1898 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/lifeofadmiralsir00raws/page/n8 ''Life of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson''] by Geoffrey Rawson 1914 Archive.org. Includes information about operations in East Africa 1896 which led up to the storming of Mweli.
*[https://archive.org/details/withmacdonaldinu00aust/page/n8/mode/2up ''With Macdonald in Uganda : a narrative account of the Uganda Mutiny and Macdonald Expedition in the Uganda Protectorate and the territories to the north''] [1897-98] by Major Herbert H Austin 1903 Archive.org.
:Article [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637864 "Macdonald's Expedition and the Uganda Mutiny, 1897-98"] by R. W. Beachey ''The Historical Journal'' Vol. 10, No. 2 (1967), pp. 237-254. Register with jstor.org and read online for free.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028000499/page/n11 ''The life of Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, K. C. S. I., C. B., C. M. G., 1835-1881; including services in Kaffraria--in China--in Ashanti--in India and in Natal''] by Lieut.-General Sir William F Butler 1899 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/advanceofourwest00wall/page/n7 ''The Advance of our West African Empire''] by C Braithwaite Wallis, late District Commissioner, Sierra Leone Protectorate. 1903 Archive.org. Details of the Sierra Leone Campaign (April 1898-March 1899), also known as the Sierra Leone Protectorate Expedition, or the Hut Tax War.
: The is also a personal account of this Expedition by "One who was there" in ''Royal United Services Institution Journal'' Volume 43, 1899 - Issue 255, pages 534-542.
*[https://archive.org/details/westafricanpock00unkngoog/page/n5 ''The West African Pocket Book: A Guide for Newly-appointed Government Officers''] Compiled by direction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies . Provisional edition 1905. [https://archive.org/details/westafricanpocke00grea/page/n4 Fifth Edition November 1920] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eastafricaprotec00eliouoft ''The East Africa Protectorate''] by Sir Charles Eliot 1905 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/biggameshootingo00dick/page/n9/mode/2up ''Big Game Shooting on the Equator''] by F. A. Captain Dickinson. 1908. [https://archive.org/details/biggameshootingo00dickiala/page/n9/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ournewestcolonyb00andeiala ''Our newest colony : being an account of British East Africa and its possibilities as a new land for settlement''] by A G Anderson 1910 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/colonyinmakingor00cranuoft ''A colony in the making : or, Sport and profit in British East Africa''] by Lord Cranworth 1912 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/farmingplantingi00osherich#page/n73/mode/1up Photograph: All Saints’ Church Nairobi] facing page 27
*[https://archive.org/details/tanganyikaterri00unkngoog/page/n9 ''The Tanganyika Territory (formerly German East Africa), Characteristics and Potentialities''] by F S Joelson 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sunsandsomalslea00rayn/page/n5 ''Sun, Sand and Somals; Leaves from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland''] by Major H Rayne 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dualmandateinbri00luga ''The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa''] by The Right Hon. Sir F D Lugard 1922 Archive.org
*[https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?item_type=journal&institution=national-library-of-uganda&grouping=9955 ''The Uganda Journal''] The Uganda Literary and Scientific Society. Editions from Volume I 1934 (broken range). World Digital Library a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, from National Library of Uganda. Stated to be 75 editions. If all results do not display, click on "Narrow results", and then select by time period.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175925/page/n1 ''Five Years Hard: Being an account of the fall of the Fulani Empire and a picture of the daily life of a Regimental Officer among the people of the Western Sudan''] by Brigadier-General FP Crozier. 1932 Archive.org. Early 1900sCovers the period 1901-1905. Note: missing some pages. [https://theauxiliaries.com/men-alphabetical/men-c/crozier/crozier.html Biographical details, including obituary] theauxiliaries.com. For WW1 books by Crozier, see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Western Front - Infantry and others]].*[https://archive.org/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes many chapters about Africa.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181011062612/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/ ''The History of the Royal West African Frontier Force''] by Colonel A. Haywood and Brigadier F.A.S.Clarke. 1964. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk, now archived at Archive.org. Originally required Flash turned on, this requirement may still apply - if you see a Flash icon, click it. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Transcribed version].
*[https://archive.org/details/colonialwestafri0000crow/page/n7 ''Colonial West Africa : Collected Essays''] by Michael Crowder 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/talesfromdarkcon00sour ''Tales from the Dark Continent: images of British colonial Africa in the twentieth century''] by Charles Allen 1979. Archive.org Lending Library. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries.
*[https://archive.org/details/savagewarsbritis00jame ''The Savage Wars : British Campaigns in Africa, 1870-1920''] by Lawrence James 1985 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=341404;keyword=Victorian%20Soldier%20Africa ''The Victorian Soldier in Africa''] by Edward M Spiers 2004. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
*''The Colonial Office List for ...'' Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1862: First publication]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1867], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878]; [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/555073632.pdf 1879] pdf from Oxford University Library, may be slow to open, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879 Google Books edition] should become freely available 2020; [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoog/page/n14 1881]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89090339342?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 1889]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003/page/23 1903]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 1904]; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1922 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992447 B]
: In addition, ''Colonial Office List, 1863'' and ''Colonial Office List, 1870'' are available in the [[findmypast]] (pay website) dataset [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-directories-and-almanacs "Britain, Directories & Almanacs"] located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs.
:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
