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==Other records==
There are other findmypast datasets which contain , or may contain , records relating to India.
*findmypast category "Directories & social history/ Social history"
**British In India. Released 24 December 2015. Transcriptions and images from cards completed by Major Vernon Charles Padget Hodson (1883-1963), Lt. Col. Herbert Kendall Percy-Smith FSG (1897-1975) and others held at the [[Society of Genealogists]], "British in India documents female relatives of officers of the Bengal Army, Madras Army and Bombay Army, along with British civil servants, chaplains, merchants, plantation owners, labourers and British people in India after the East India Company period".
**British Nationals Born Overseas, Married Overseas, Died Overseas. (3 datasets). Currently (February 2015) these are index records. For a description see [[General Register Office]]
**A dataset called "British Overseas Marriages" 1818-2005, includes some transcriptions of marriages at St John's Calcutta and , in spite of the dataset title, appear to be from the late 1700s/early 1800s. These are transcriptions, elsewhere <ref>W., Hugh [http://hughw36.blogspot.com.au/2008_08_31_archive.html Genealoge] September 06, 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2015</ref> stated to be from records at the [[Society of Genealogists]], and are very limited in information. Only the year of marriage is given, and there are no details of the spouse. See [[Calcutta]] for '''possible''' sources of these records. There are also records from other counties in this dataset.
**For records relating to BMD events at sea, see [[Births, marriages and deaths at sea‎]].** A dataset called "Probate Calendars Of England & Wales 1858-1959", located in the sub-category "Wills & probate". For more details, see [[Wills, Administrations, Probate and Inventories]].
*For military records:
**See [[British Army]]
**Indian Army. There is an incorrectly titled dataset "British Army, Indian Volunteer Force Medal Awards 1915-1939", located under Armed forces & conflict/Medal rolls and honours. The information for each transcript was extracted from the Indian Army Orders by Kevin Asplin.
*findmypast category "Newspapers and periodicals". Online newspapers. See [[Newspapers]].
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