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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 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 website previously had an has a limited English language version, but see link further in this no longer seems to apply generallysection, but there is which includes the page [http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/en/Presentation/Empires-coloniaux-francais-12.html French India and the French East India Company]. For other pages, consider [https://translate.google.com.au Google Translate]or [https://www.deepl.com/translator DeepL Translator] which some consider more accurate than Google.
<br>In addition to the five Districts, mentioned above, it is advised there were eight subsidiary trading stations (factories), at [[Balasore| Balassore]], [[Cossimbazar|Kassimbazar]], Yougdia, or Jougdia now on the seabed near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwip Sandwip], [[Dacca]], [[Patna]], [[Masulipatam|Masulipatnam]], [[Calicut]], [[Surat|Surate]] and Iskitipitch, otherwise called the îles Iskitippah, or the Iskitippah Islands, (although only sandbanks<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100707032416/http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/Interets_Britanniques.pdf "Pondicherry: The last months before India’s Independence: Perspectives of a British Consul General"] by Claude Arpi August 15, 2005, claudearpi.net, now an archived webpage</ref>) probably located in the vicinity of [[Yanaon]].
'''Civil registration Births, Marriages and Deaths from French India, in addition to other French colonies, are now available online''', for free.
The English language webpage [http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/en/Recherches/IREL.html Searches] contains a link to the Digitised Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths, in addition to a People and Families Name Database. If you can't see the record images, you may need to download the latest Java software.
*[http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/en/Pdp/Plan-du-site.html ANOM English language website: Site Plan] Note this seems to be an older website, and some of the internal links no longer work.
**[http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/en/Pratique/Accueil-Pratique.html ANOM: Practical Information] English language. Includes
***[http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/en/Pratique/Liens-utiles-Thematique.html Useful links] English language. Then click on the headings Territorial; Practical information; Genealogy.
*[http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/ulysse/ Ulysse], ANOM's searchable database of images, including maps from the colonial period (in French).
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives_nationales_(France)#Archives_nationales_d.27outre-mer ANOM] Wikipedia
