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Back issues of the ''Journal'' are available to members and non-members, and can be purchased online. Click on <FIBIS shop> in the Navigation panel to the left to learn more. An index of the contents of each issue appears below.
Most of the content of ''Journals 1 - 2426'' is available for members to browse online. Articles in '''bold''' are available online via the FIBIS database - click on <FIBIS database> in the Navigation panel to the left to begin a search. You will need to log in to the FIBIS database as a member to be able to read or browse ''Journal'' articles. (Previously, J''ournals 1 - 15'' were available in the Members' Area but these were not indexed in the FIBIS database.) Click on Publications, then Newspapers and Periodicals. Alternatively, use the [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=606&s_id=103 direct link] and then login, then click twice on your "back" button.
The [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=606&s_id=103 FIBIS database] now has a searchable index for Volumes 1-12 of the ''FIBIS Journal''. Anyone can search, but to view the reference in a ''Journal'' you must be a logged in FIBIS member.
Copies of the ''Journal'' are also available at the [[British Library]]. The current issue is on display in the African and Asian Studies Reading Room and earlier editions are in the General Reference Collection, shelfmark ZK.9.a.7347
 
==FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)==
*Editorial
*The Clark Brothers - Life in the Bengal Army by ''Charles Gordon Clark'' - page 3
*Distant Relations Discovered - A Bencoolen Family Reunited by ''James T Day'' - page 15
*From Agra Fort - George Collett’s letters to Mountstuart Elphinstone by ''Valmay S Young'' - page 19
*Assistant Surgeon RLW Beveridge, Indian Medical Department by ''Allan Stanistreet'' - page 28
* The British Indian Civil Service by ''Peter Bailey'' - page 30
* A Parsonage in Madras - Elizabeth Smith’s letters by ''Diana Bousfield Wells'' - page 38
*Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, Director of the East India Company by ''George Buxton'' - page 49
*Review: The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy 2012. Review by ''Hugh Wilding'' - page 51
==FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)==
==FIBIS Journal Number 26 (Autumn 2011)==
*'''Editorial'''*'''From the Land of Dracula to an English Rectory ''' by ''Peter Hubert''*'''A Lucas Family: From Ireland to India ''' by ''David Atkinson''*'''William Garnett, the Volunteering Major ''' by ''Michael Garnett''*'''Boy Soldier to Lancer: John Arnfield in the Anglo -Sikh Wars ''' by ''Ainslie Sharpe''*'''James Minty: Tracing the Life of a Soldier ''' by ''Cathy Day''*'''Dean Mahomed and Captain Godfrey Evan Baker of the HEIC Bengal Army ''' by ''Emma Jolly''*'''Reviews'''**'''A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947 by John Archibald Hislop, edited by Penny Kocher 2010'''. Review by ''Richard Morgan''**'''Heroes or Villains? The British in India ' by Geoff Palmer 2011'''. Review by ''Peter Bailey''**''''I Can Never Say Enough About The Men'- A History of the Jammu & Kashmir Rifles throughout their World War One Campaign by Andrew Kerr 2010'''. Review by ''Peter Bailey''** '''Letters from Bencoolen 1823-28 by Thomas Day and William Day with an intro by James Trelawny Day 2008'''. Review by ''Sarah Bilton''** '''Getting the best out of the FIBIS Website by Valmay Young 2011'''. Review by ''Sarah Bilton''
==FIBIS Journal Number 25 (Spring 2011)==
*'''Editorial'''*'''The Tale of a Telescope from Lucknow ''' by ''Susan Macklin'' *'''The Indian Railways and a Dynasty of Pearces ''' by ''Michael Feilden Pearce''*'''Tracing an Honorary Assistant Surgeon ''' by ''Lawrie Butler''*'''Adam Maxwell of Cawnpore - Indigo and Intrigue ''' by ''Judith Vandenburgh Green''*'''Advice for Young House-Keepers in India ''' by ''William Hall''*'''Civil Service Records in the India Office Reading Room: A Study of the L/F/10 series ''' by ''Lawrie Butler'' with a contribution from ''David Blake'' *'''A Christmas Dance and Supper in Jodhpur 1942 ''' *'''Using Google Books for Family History Research ''' by ''Ed Storey''*'''Reviews'''**'''Mehtars and Marigolds: a story of four generations in British India (1874-1948) by Barbara Dinner 2009 ''' Review by ''R Reardon''**'''The Travelling Scotsman: the Life and Times of Paterson Saunders, Senior by Mary Anne Gourley 2010'''. Review by ''Sylvia Murphy''
==FIBIS Journal Number 24 (Autumn 2010)==
*'''Using Social Networking for Family History Research''' - ''Valmay Young''
*'''Building the Beas Bridge''' - ''Hugh Wilding''
*'''Review''' - Colonial Cousins: A Surprising History of Connections Between India and Australia by Joyce Westrip and Peggy Holroyde 2010'''. Review by ''Sylvia C M Murphy''
==FIBIS Journal Number 23 (Spring 2010)==
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