6,291
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
'''Update''': findmypast released additional records 23 December 2015.
*Over 23,000 additions to British India Office Births & Baptisms records.
*New records added to British India Office Marriages. “The marriages are comprised of ecclesiastic of the archives of the East India Company (1600-1858), the Board of Control or Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India (1784 – 1858), the India Office (1858-1947), the Burma Office (1937-1947), and a number of related British agencies”. <ref>
[https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/british-india-office-marriages-1522895484.html British India Office Marriages] findmypast blog.</ref>
* Over 16,000 additions to British India Office Wills & Probate records.
* Nearly 2,000 additions to British India Office Assistant Surgeons records.
remove update entries
The commercial site '''findmypast''' has digital images and transcriptions from the India Office Records at the British Library, which were made available 29 January 2014.
For a description of the databases, see '''[[Findmypast#External links|External links below]]''': "FindmyPast British India Office Collection".
'''Note that some India Office Records will not be found in the findmypast database''', (for technical or other reasons) but may be found on [[IGI|FamilySearch]], as transcribed index records and microfilms. Examples are some/all of the records from Madras: Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (Oct 1815-May 1818) IOR/N/2/6 [[IGI|FamilySearch]] microfilm 506957 and Madras: Roman Catholic Returns of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (1838-1839) IOR/N/2/RC/1-2 [[IGI|FamilySearch]] microfilm 530008.
==Other records==
