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===Military records===
The LDS have 51 microfiche of the French Government's "Alphabetical list of military and civilian officers serving in the French colonies, (abt. 1659-1873)." They are microfiche no. '''6002212'''. [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/453989 Catalogue entry]. The records are from ANOM, refer below.
===Other===
==Archives==
===ANOM, previously CAOM===
The Pondicherry archives are in the "Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer (ANOM)" previously known as the "Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer" (CAOM), in the city of Aix en Provence, France. The archive Archive website [http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/fr Archives nationales d'outre-mer] includes the page [http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/ark:/61561/wz818mjonlk Établissements Français de L'Inde] (This link is reached through IREL; Etat general des fonds; Fonds territoriaux) (in French). Records for Île Bourbon (Réunion), [Reunion Island] and Île de France (Île Maurice), [Mauritius], islands which have links with India, are included in those available at ANOM.
The [http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/en/index.html English website] does not appear to have all the information contained on the French language website but includes
*[http://www.cgb-reunion.re CGB : Cercle Généalogique de Bourbon]. Île de la Réunion, or Reunion Island. It was previously known as Île Bourbon. It is located about 200 kilometres (120 mi) southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island.
*French and Latin language aids
**[https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/France France] includes [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/France_Language_and_Languages France Language and Languages] which includes a Word List. Family Search (LDS) Wiki. *:[https://familysearch.org/learningcenterask/learningViewer/results.html?q=%22Reading%20French%20Handwritten%20Records%20%22 83 Reading French Handwritten Records] : 3 Lessons from [https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html FamilySearch Learning Center]
**Rudy Schmidt’s [https://web.archive.org/web/20140127040707/http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/French/French.htm French Glossary of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms], now archived.
**[https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Latin_Genealogical_Word_List Latin Genealogical Word List]. Some Roman Catholic records may be in Latin. Family Search (LDS) Wiki.
::[https://familysearch.org/learningcenterask/lessonlearningViewer/key-words-and-phrases-in-latin-records/21 68 Key Words and Phrases in Latin Records]FamilySearch Learning Center/Lessons::[https://familysearch. org/ask/learningViewer/374 Latin For Genealogists] FamilySearch Learning CentreCenter/Lessons
:*Rudy Schmidt’s [https://web.archive.org/web/20160217205823/http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Latin/Latin.htm Latin/English Glossary of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms], now archived.
*[http://www.france24.com/en/20140225-world-war-one-bengal-india-bangladesh-france "Remembering the Bengalis who fought for France in WWI"] by Stéphanie Trouillard 2014-02-25 france24.com
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/hindustanunderf01keengoog#page/n10/mode/1up ''Hindustan Under Free Lances, 1770-1820: Sketches of Military Adventure in Hindustan''] by Henry George Keene 1907 Archive.org. This book is about European adventurers, many of them French.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/threefrenchmenin00hill#page/n7/mode/2up ''Three Frenchmen in Bengal; or, The commercial ruin of the French settlements in 1757''] by Samuel Charles Hill 1903 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500671/2015.500671.Bengal-Past#page/n95/mode/2up "Echoes from Old Chandernagore" ] page 343 ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume 2 1908'', page 343. This volume is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, as Volume 2, no.3 (July 1908), computer page 96, as a [http://www.newArchive.dli.ernet.inorg/handle/2015/500671 pdf download]Digital Library of India Collection. Contains some cemetery records, and a few marriage and baptism details.
*''Private diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai, [http://www.archive.org/stream/hobsonjobsonbein00yuleuoft#page/328/mode/1up dubash] to Joseph François Dupleix, a record of matters political, historical, social, and personal, from 1736 to 1761'' published 1904 [http://www.archive.org/stream/privatediaryofan01ananuoft#page/n9/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/privatediaryofan02ananuoft#page/n7/mode/2up Volume 2] Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MnUIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Transactions in India, from the commencement of the French War in seventeen hundred and fifty-six, to the conclusion of the late peace, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three: Containing a history of the British interests in Indostan, during a period of near thirty years; distinguished by two wars with France, several revolutions and treaties of alliance, the acquisition of an extensive territory, and the administration of Governor Hastings''] by John Moir 1786 Google Books
