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*The following reference to Germans in the [[Dutch|Dutch East Indies]] is quoted in [http://www.igv.nl/jir/broneng.html Janssen’s Indisch Repertorium]: ''Die Deutschen in Niederländisch Indien'', door Mr. P.C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, Vortrag gehalten in der Ortsgruppe Batavia am 30. Sept. 1935, Tokyo/Leipzig 1937 (Mitteilungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Band XXIX, Teil D).
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-03/1141504497 post] advises that an ancestor came from East Prussia, now Lithuania . Many Germans were Lutherans who did not use the Episcopalian Churches and records were found in Presbyterian registers. Refer [[Church records#Missionary and Non-Conformist Church records, including the Church of Scotland| Missionary and Non-Conformist Church records]]. Some Church of Scotland Bombay church records and records for St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Madras may be found in [[LDS Microfilms of Church registers in India]], but it seems the records for St Andrew's Church of Scotland in Calcutta have not been filmed and are only obtainable from the church. Contact the Church of North India, refer [[Calcutta#Churches and missions|Calcutta-Churches and missions]]. There is a [[LDS]] film catalogue [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1123389& entry]: St Andrew'Parish s Calcutta also holds baptism and marriage registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals, burials, correspondence, etc.), from Church of South Scotland churches in cantonments throughtout India, Diocese of MadrasBurma, 1743-1990'Ceylon and some Gulf stations. The Church of South India (CSI) includes Presbyterians but no specific Presbyterian Registers are listed in the film notes.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-04/0954748785 post] suggests Lutheran missions as a source of German names. Refer [[Missionary#Other External Links| Missionary-Other External Links]]
*A [http://www.weeklyvoice.com/headlines/napoleons-soldiers-in-maharaja-ranjit-singhs-army review] of the book ''The Lion’s Firanghis: Europeans at the Court of Lahore'' by Bobby Singh Bansal 2010 "By the 1830s a multifarious array of [[French]], Prussian, Spanish, [[Dutch]] and Italian officers had descended on the Anglo-Punjab frontier, hoping to enlist in the services of the opportunistic Maharajah…" Available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0956127010 FIBIS Shop]
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