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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.
*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.
**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]].
==Printing records from findmypast and/or Ancestry==
If you want to print records:
:"The answer is to DOWNLOAD the image to open in your own picture editing software. In FMP the download button is on the bottom right of the screen.
:When you click on that link it will probably open a dialogue box asking you what you want to do with the file. I use IrfanView (a free and easy to use picture edition program) so my jpg downloads automatically come here and give me the option to open or save. Once open I then use the edit function to draw round and crop the page that I want and then print it – usually fits nicely on an A4 page and unless faded is readable.
:On Ancestry it is to be found on the top right of the window green button labelled SAVE - choose the 'Save to your computer' option. Mine then behaves as it does for FMP.
:… if you are using a library version of either… you may be able to save it to a USB stick and then edit it at home."<ref>Murphy, Sylvia.
[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2016-11/1478902502 Baptism records - Madras Presidency] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 12 November 2016. [http://www.irfanview.com IrfanView]. Retrieved 13 November 2016.</ref>
'''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.
==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". 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.
*findmypast category "Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records"
**British Nationals Armed Forces Births, Marriages, Deaths. (3 datasets). For a description of these index records see [[Chaplains Returns]].
**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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