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*Findmypast category "Travel & Migration", subcategory Migration.
**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". Note: The Search facility does not pick up the majority of the female names, only the male names. Most of the female names are only revealed when looking at the male records.
::'''Update''': An additional 56,729 records were added to the British In India dataset 9 February 2018 and "over 7,000" records for surnames beginning with the letters J and K, were added c 7 February 2020.
*Findmypast category "Travel & Migration", subcategory Passenger Lists contains the dataset "Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960". Also see [[Passenger lists]].
*Findmypast category "Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records"
*:[https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2114&awinaffid=201071&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fsearch.findmypast.co.uk%252Fsearch-world-Records%252Fbritish-subjects-who-died-in-the-service-of-the-indian-empire%5D%5D British Subjects Who Died In The Service Of The Indian Empire], (introduced 2018/08/10). No details of the source of this database is provided, but it is most likely taken from the Naval & Military Press reprint ''Soldiers Of The Raj'', originally in two volumes published in 1910 as ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest''. The latter two volumes are available online, (free), see [[Cemeteries#Inscriptions in online books|Cemeteries - Inscriptions in online books]]. and note that the content does not appear to be restricted to "Armed Forces & Conflict".
** See [[South Africa]] for details of the database "South Africa Roll Of Honour 1914-1918".
*Findmypast category "Newspapers and periodicals". Online newspapers. Includes ''The Times of India'' database 1861-1888, with planned extension to 1889, and ''Madras Courier'' 1790-1818. See [[Newspapers and journals online#Pay websites|Newspapers and journals online - Pay websites]].
*Findmypast category "Census, Land & Surveys"
**Census records may be useful for locating children at school in Britain, whose parents are in India. Census records are also available on Ancestry. Note: 1911 Census of Scotland is not included - this is available on ScotlandsPeople.
*Findmypast category "Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs",
**[https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2114&awinaffid=201071&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fsearch.findmypast.co.uk%252Fsearch-world-Records%252Fbritish-in-india-directories-1792-1948-browse%5D%5D British In India, Directories 1792-1948] introduced 2018/05/18. Of the titles examined as a sample, most 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]], but one volume not seen elsewhere is ''Times Of India Bombay Directory, 1936''. 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.
*:By comparison, an equivalent database on Ancestry "UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939" located in Schools, Directories & Church Histories, includes many publications not available online elsewhere.
**[https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2114&awinaffid=201071&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fsearch.findmypast.co.uk%252Fsearch-world-Records%252Fbritain-royal-and-imperial-calendars-1767-1973%5D%5D Britain, Royal and Imperial Calendars 1767-1973] introduced 2020/01/31. "The Imperial Calendars provide a valuable resource for tracing the whereabouts and careers of persons employed in various posts in the public sphere from the 1800s to 1973". The early calendars include persons serving in the East India Company and it seems likely there would also be later references to persons in India.
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