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:*[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/details?country=Africa#AFRICA Africa]
:*[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/details?country=Uganda#AFR-UGANDA Uganda]. Currently inactive. Currently (2020/01) there are no archives accessible.
*[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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===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>
*[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
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*Rootsweb Mailing Lists. '''Update 7 January 2020''': Beginning From March 2nd, 2020 all Rootsweb Mailing Lists will be have been discontinued. Mailing list archives will remain available and searchable.
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::[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/afr-kenya.rootsweb.com/ Search the Kenya List Archives]
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*[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]
*[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/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.
*[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://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. Covers 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.
