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==Ancestry database==
*"UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939". Located in Schools, Directories & Church Histories, available from 15 February 2018.<ref>[https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61468 UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939] Ancestry database</ref> Data from The Wohl Library of the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. The data is searchable, and the Directories and similar publications may be browsed from a link on the right hand side of the webpage "Browse this collection". Includes some pre 1800 publications. Includes many publications not available online elsewhere.
Not on findmypast
'''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 digitised 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<ref>Glover, Jill. [https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/220935/ KENNEDY/HILL Saga – Disappointment] ''Rootsweb India List'' 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2018.</ref> . 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 currently (2018) a limited transcription only is available with no digital images for births after 1917, and for marriages after 1932. These dates have been increased since the original restrictions in place when the databases were introduced in 2014 (which were after 1914/1929), but not on an annual basis, so possibly this will happen every three years. Expanded details of these restricted records can be obtained from the British Library, or from FamilySearch microfilm/digitised microfilm, see [[FamilySearch Centres]].
==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. There is also the associated dataset "England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1832-1932 Image Browse". Read the findmypast Search tips. There are also electoral registers on Ancestry.
*findmypast category "Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs", "British In India, Directories 1792-1948 Browse",<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-in-india-directories-1792-1948-browse British In India, Directories 1792-1948 Browse] findmypast.</ref> introduced 2018/05/18. Of the titles examined as a sample, all were freely available elsewhere, (and in fact may be the same digital files), see the Fibiwiki pages [[Directories online]], [[Newspapers and journals online]] and [[Indian Army List online]]. Additionally, it is necessary to use the search, (or browse) to find the exact years of publication available. These publications are '''not''' currently searchable by name. The findmypast viewer for this database is slow, and it would be quicker to view a volume elsewhere.
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