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The commercial site '''findmypast''' has digital images and transcriptions from the India Office Records at the British Library, (released 29 January 2014).
For a description of the databases, see '''[[Findmypast#External links|External links below]]''': "FindmyPast British India Office Collection".
Categories often cover a wide range of records. This is particularly true for those which might, at first glance, appear to relate only to [[church records]]. For example, the sections on births and baptisms also include such records as Addiscombe Cadets and Writer applications and those in the Deaths and Burials category show returns of death of uncovenanted civil servants and other officers which give details of family and property left by the deceased.
A full list of the records available in the British In India Collection on findmypast can be found on the British Library website, refer External links below.
'''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. Note that names may be '''transcribed incorrectly''' which will affect the findmypast Search. If you cannot find a record you are looking for, cross check with records on Familysearch, or try a more general search on findmypast. See "11 tips for searching", External links below.
For privacy reasons be aware that a limited transcription only is available with no digital images for births after 1914, and for marriages after 1929. These dates were the restrictions in place when the databases were introduced in 2014, and appear to be permanent restrictions, probably indicating that records were not filmed after these dates. Expanded details of these restricted records need to be obtained from the British Library or from FamilySearch microfilm.
==Other records==
*This category also contains electoral registers which may be useful if you are tracing a person who has returned or immigrated to the UK. The main database is "England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1832-1932", although there are gaps in the records for various years, and not all constituencies are included (ongoing project). These records are displayed as pdf documents. Read the findmypast Search tips. There are also electoral registers on Ancestry.
findmypast category "Travel & migration", subcategory Passenger lists contains the dataset "Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960". Also see [[Passenger lists]].
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