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The commercial site '''findmypast.co.ukFindmypast''' <ref> [http://www.findmypast.co.uk findmypast]</ref> has digital images and transcriptions from the India Office Records at the British Library, which were made available (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 Find My Past findmypast can be found on the British Library website, refer External links below. Subsequent to the initial release, the India Office databases from c 2019/03 include some additional records, some transcriptions licensed from FIBIS, and in the India Office Deaths, transcriptions from the Kabristan Archives. Perhaps other records may also be included. '''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. <br>Examples are some/probably 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://web.archive.org/web/20201020003843/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=220935 KENNEDY/HILL Saga – Disappointment] ''Rootsweb India List'' 8 December 2015 (scroll down), now archived.</ref>. At least one (but not all) Bengal Marriages Oct-Dec 1883 IOR/N/1/186 was missing from Findmypast, to be found on FamilySearch, as an index record from microfilm 510871. Marriages and most of the deaths from IOR/N1/444 Bengal: Baptisms, Marriages, Burials Apr 1920-Jun 1920 also appear to be missing from Findmypast (as at 2021/01/15). <br>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 external "11 tips for searching", External links below. For privacy reasons be aware that currently (2022/06/26) a limited transcription only is available with no digital images for births '''after 1922''', and for some births in 1922, where the baptism was after 1922, and for marriages '''after 1937'''. These dates have been increased since the original restrictions in place when the databases were introduced in 2014 (which were after 1914/1929), and over the immediate past years there has been an increase on an annual basis. Expanded details of these restricted records can be obtained from the [[British Library]], (payment required) or from FamilySearch microfilm/digitised microfilm, from (and see) [[FamilySearch Centres]], (available for free), (and currently also from FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries some of which, particularly genealogical societies, may charge a visitor fee) which may however be geographically not feasible for some researchers. Also check whether there is a [[FamilySearch]] indexed record, which sometimes may contain more details than the Findmypast equivalent.
==Searching tipsOther records==There are other Findmypast datasets which contain, or may contain, records relating to India, or other countries in the region.*Tip 1<ref> These tips originally appeared on 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 FIBIS Facebook page</ref> :Wish you could fill [[Society of Genealogists]], "British in India documents female relatives of officers of the parents names Bengal Army, Madras Army and have a list of search results showing all their children? Unfortunately you can't do thatBombay Army, along with British civil servants, chaplains, merchants, plantation owners, but you can do something else that will produce similar resultslabourers and British people in India after the East India Company period". Note:1The Search facility does not pick up the majority of the female names, only the male names. Enter Most of the surname female names are onlyrevealed when looking at the male records.:2. Enter the father’s first name into OPTIONAL WORDS:3. Click 'Search ''Update''': An additional 56,729 records were added to the British In India Office Births dataset 9 February 2018 and "over 7,000" records for surnames beginning with the letters J and Baptisms'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]].*Tip 2Findmypast category "Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records":Looking for cadet application forms **British Armed Forces and petitions? You need to search British India Office Overseas Births & Baptism as they seem to be in , Marriages, Deaths. (3 datasets), with those a fourth dataset "British Armed Forces and not Overseas Browse", located in with military Life Events (BMDs). For a description of these records, some of them index recordsonly, see [[Chaplains Returns]] and [[General Register Office]].*Tip 3*British Armed Forces, Roman Catholic Registers, covering 1836-1975 (introduced 2017/11). There is a related Browse database. The registers were created by the Bishopric of the Forces, the religious officials of the Roman Catholic Church responsible for the pastoral care of Roman Catholics in the military, and are from The Scottish Catholic Archives. Includes locations in the UK as well as bases in Cairo, Cyprus, Malta, and more.** Previously there was a dataset called "British Overseas Marriages" 1818-2005, included 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 were transcriptions, elsewhere <ref>W., Hugh [http:Looking //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 were very limited in information. Only the year of marriage was given, and there were no details of the spouse. See [[Calcutta]] for '''possible''' sources of these records. There were also records from other counties in this dataset. However, this no longer exists as a surname beginning with O ? Quite a few seem separate dataset, but appears to have been data entered incorporated into the British Armed Forces and Overseas Marriages dataset above, as O' British Overseas Marriages (Cliff Webb Collection).**Database "British In Ceylon Parish Records". We For more details, see [[Ceylon#Findmypast/Kabristan Archives|Ceylon - Findmypast/Kabristan Archives]]** Records relating to BMD events at sea have come across OLIVER entered as O 'LVER now been incorporated into British Armed Forces and OGLE as O'LE etcOverseas Births, Marriages, Deaths. (3 datasets), refer above.*Tip 4 * 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:Take **See [[British Army]]**Indian Army.***Dataset "Indian Army Records Of Service 1900-1947" located in Military, Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records. '''Index records only''' for service records which are held at the location given British Library, and which may be Searched for in the BL Archives and Manuscripts catalogue. See [[Indian Army#British Library|Indian Army-Records]] for more details.***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 "Armed Forces & Conflict/ Other Wars & Conflicts" contains a search result with a pinch database*:[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 salt-the-indian-empire%5D%5D British Subjects Who Died In The Service Of The Indian Empire], (introduced 2018/08/10). Quite a few index entries give No details of the source of this database is provided, but it is most likely taken from the wrong location for 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 eventPunjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest''. This seems 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 down restricted to "Armed Forces & Conflict".** See [[South Africa]] for details of the transcriber misunderstanding the location written at the top database "South Africa Roll Of Honour 1914-1918".** See [[West Indies]] for details of the pagedatabase "Caribbean Rolls Of Honour WW1".*Findmypast category "Newspapers and periodicals". Online newspapers. For instanceIncludes ''The Times of India'' database 1861-1888, some events at Chunar are indexed as Benareswith planned extension to 1889, because the original record notes and ''Madras Courier''Baptisms 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 Chunar within 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.**This category also contains electoral registers which may be useful if you are tracing a person who has returned or immigrated to the district of Benares'UK. We have found other entries indexed as being at Calcutta The main database is "England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1832-1932", when it really was within although there are gaps in the archdeaconry/diocese of Calcutta records for various years, and some Dehra Dun not all constituencies are included (ongoing project). These records indexed are displayed as Benarespdf documents. That There is a minor inconvenience as some locations are closealso the associated dataset "England & Wales, but a reminder to check Electoral Registers 1832-1932 Image Browse". Read the wider areaFindmypast Search tips. There are also electoral registers on Ancestry.*Tip 5Findmypast category "Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs", **[https:Know someone is definitely baptised//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]], married or buried somewhere[[Newspapers and journals online]] and [[Indian Army List online]], but canone volume not seen elsewhere is ''Times Of India Bombay Directory, 1936't '. 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 when searching? would be quicker to view a volume elsewhere.*:Put 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.** in first [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/asia-far-east-directories-and-chronicles-1833-1941 Asia, Far East Directories & Chronicles 1833-1941], with a [https://www.findmypast.com/articles/asia-far-east-directories-and-chronicles-1833-1941-titles Publication list], introduced 2021/12/10. The database '''is''' searchable by name field . An examination of a sample of three volumes indicated they were all digitised by others ( don't check 2 by Google Books and one by National Library of Scotland) and were available elsewhere, and it is suspected that the variant option)whole database is similar, and does not include any "new" digitisations. The Findmypast viewer for this database is slow, and it would be quicker to view a volume elsewhere. See [[China]] for alternative sources. **[https:Put an * //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, more records added 2020/06/19. From 1809 onward, the title was ''British Imperial Calendar'', or some variant, and the publications which were scanned are probably located in surname field ( donthe the Library at the National Archives. At 2020/06, the years from 1809 are '''missing'''t check 1844-46,75, 80,83, 85-86; 1919, 21-24, 26, 42, 44-45, from the database, and it is not known whether all Parts have been digitised. "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 variant option )1800s to 1973". "The later calendars from the 20th century evolved to include the Civil Service List and additional departments such as Home Office and Treasury".<ref>[https:Now fill //www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/british-nicaraguan-records Fridays] Findmypast blog 19 June 2020.</ref> The early calendars include persons serving in a place name eg Vepery the East India Company and possibly there may be later references to persons in the place field India. Also includes at least some military references. A sample volume looked at was for ''1920 Part II, (Civil Service List)'' [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbor%2fkal%2fik_1920%2f0004 findmypast link], commencing at page 209, including [https:Run //search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbor%2fkal%2fik_1920%2f0029 "Air Ministry"] page 249a. These volumes are designed to be searched, and are slow to browse, although it is possible.:You will get all :A Browse database "Britain, Royal and Imperial Calendars 1767-1973 Browse" was introduced 14 April 2023, consisting of a selection of editions from the baptismsSearch database, marriages or burial's that show 39 at date of introduction, approximately 20% of the event occurring volumes in Veperythe Search database.*Tip 6 :: Some online volumes available elsewhere give an indication of the content:::[http://www.cse.psu.edu/~deh25/post/Timeline_files/British-Imperial-Calendar.html 1811-1856] (broken range) cse.psu.edu. Links to Google Books or HathiTrust editions.:Looking for ::1887 edition is available on a surname beginning with D' FamilySearch digitised Film # 005589525 (you need to be signed into FS to view), commencing [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9SN-49YC?i=360&cat=274338 image 361], [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89SN-49GS?i=361&cat=274338 Index] image 362, [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89SN-49SC? We have found i=530&cat=274338 image 531] page 218 Indian Political Department: Residents at Foreign Courts..Political Agents*Findmypast category "Education & Work"**Database "East India Company Madras Records Of Service 1741-1858" located in subcategory "Colonial Service". This record set is transcribed index records from a few D' entered as O' . For example D'Emello has been entered as O'Emello etcbook of the same title by Charles Prinsep, published 1885, which is available online, see [[Indian Civil Service#Lists|Indian Civil Service]].
==External links==
*[https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2114&awinaffid=201071&clickref=&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.findmypast.co.uk findmypast] website. Under the tab "Search records" is a category [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 "A-Z of record sets"] which is a listing of all the record databases. Searching in the World record sets using the keyword India produces these [http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2114&awinaffid=201071&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.findmypast.co.uk%2Fhistorical-records%3FSearchedRecordsetName%3DIndia%26Region%3DWorld datasets]*[http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2114&awinaffid=201071&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findmypast.co.uk%2Farticles%2Fworld-records%2Fsearch-all-uk-records%2Fspecial-collections%2Fbritish-india-office-collection FindmyPast British India Office Collection]. Additionally the following have been added to this dataset, (some of which are '''not''' from the British Library India Office)**'''2019'''/March/08, some records relating to endowment registers were added to the database "British India Office Deaths & Burials". These appear most likely to be transcriptions from Kabristan Archives, from an ebook [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/india-publications/endowed-graves-in-north-india-1897-1947-e-book-pdf-format/ ''Endowed Graves In North India 1897-1947''] by Eileen Hewson. Probable fuller records, or the ebook may be purchased from Kabristan Archives. This ebook is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01017615656**'''2019'''/May/03, more records were added to the database "British India Office Deaths & Burials". The findmypast transcriptions indicate they are from Kabristan Archives, (an example<ref>[https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS/INDIA-KABRISTAN2/006214 Thomas Beer] died Dibrugarh 1921. Findmypast (You must be signed in to Findmypast to view the link)</ref>) but the exact publications from which they originate is not stated but most likely appear to be part, or all, of the following publications: ebook [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/india-publications/burials-in-assam-n-e-india-1793-1974-pdf-format/ ''Burials In Assam & N.E. India 1793-1974''] by Eileen Hewson. (Previously published under the two separate titles; both [[BACSA]] publications, so available on the BACSA database) ; [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/india-publications/the-forgotten-irish-memorials-of-the-raj/ ''The Forgotten Irish: Memorials of the Raj'']; [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/india-publications/kashmir-and-ladakh-india-burial-inscriptions-records-pdf-format/ ''Kashmir And Ladakh India Burial Inscriptions & Records''](PDF format) (Revised edition with extra data, previously published under the two separate titles); [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/india-publications/the-scots-cemetery-calcutta-burial-records-1827-1941-cd-format/ ''The Scots’ Cemetery Calcutta Burial Records 1827-1941''] (CD Format); [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/india-publications/simla-himachal-pradesh-burial-records-1829-1945-cd/ ''Simla & Himachal Pradesh Burial Records 1829-1945''] (CD Format). Probable fuller records, or the publications may be purchased from Kabristan Archives. Most of the publications are available at the British Library.**'''2022'''/June/24. More records were added to the databases "British India Office Births and Baptisms" and "British India Office Marriages"<ref>[https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/ireland-newspaper-notices Discover 150,000 new records from Ireland to India and beyond] 24 June 2022 Findmypast blog.</ref>*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180306070051/https://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/britishinindia/index.html The British In India collection]bl.uk British Library official description of records currently on Find My Past Findmypast with references and dates coveredat March 2018, now an archived webpage. *[http://www.fibis.org/british-india-records-findmypast-10-tips-searching/ British in India records on findmypast – 11 tips for searching] fibis.org*[https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/sharpen-up-your-online-search-skills-1908545425.html 5 Smart Search Skills You Need to Know] by Else Churchill from London's [[Society of Genealogists]]. 07 July 2016 Findmypast blog. Includes “Use Wildcard Character Replacements”.*[https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/family-records/25-million-new-british-in-india-records-released "Does your family tree have roots in British India?"] 5 February 2020 Findmypast blog.
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