Findmypast
The commercial site findmypast has digital images and transcriptions from the India Office Records at the British Library, which were made available 29 January 2014.
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 can be found on the British Library website.
Note that some India Office Records will not be found in the findmypast database, (for technical or other reasons) but may be found on 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 FamilySearch microfilm 506957 and Madras: Roman Catholic Returns of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (1838-1839) IOR/N/2/RC/1-2 FamilySearch microfilm 530008.
Other records
There are other findmypast datasets which may contain records relating to India
- 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
- British Nationals Born Overseas, Married Overseas, Died Overseas. (3 datasets). Currently (February 2015) these are index records. For a description see General Register Office
- A dataset called "British Overseas Marriages" 1818-2005, includes 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 are transcriptions, elsewhere [1] stated to be from records at the Society of Genealogists, and are very limited in information. Only the year of marriage is given, and there are no details of the spouse. See Calcutta for possible sources of these records. There are also records from other counties in this dataset.
- For records relating to BMD events at sea, see Births, marriages and deaths at sea
- For military records, see British Army
External links
- findmypast website. Under the tab "Search records" is a category "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 datasets
- FindmyPast British India Office Collection
- The British In India collection bl.uk British Library official description of records currently on findmypast with references and dates covered.
- British in India records on findmypast – 11 tips for searching
- Read the Manual? A Guide to Help for the Large Online Genealogy Programs by James Tanner, November 3, 2014 Genealogy’s Star. Scroll down to information about findmypast
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