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*The [https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org Lambeth Palace Library, London], the principal repository of the documentary history of the Church of England, holds some limited overseas registers and transcripts including "Near East: St Peter's Bazra, 1943-1966 (MSS.2505-7, 2675); Mesopotamia, (now Iraq) 1883-1966 (MSS.2669-76); St George's Baghdad (MS.3979)".<ref>Page 6 of [https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/sites/default/files/family_history.pdf "Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide Sources for Family History and Genealogy"] lambethpalacelibrary.org.</ref>*The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA Archive]] at the British Library Mss F370 has item 825 Iraq, content not known but possibly about the cemeteries rather than records.

*A search for Baghdad in the [[Society of Genealogists|Society of Genealogists, London]] [http://62s10312uk.32eos-intl.98.6eu/S10312UKStaffS10312UK/OPAC/ Index.aspx online Catalogue] of the [[Society of Genealogists|Society of Genealogists, London]] gives the following entry:

::The FamilySearch Library catalogue has an [httphttps://www.familysearch.org/engsearch/librarycatalog/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=724202&disp=Baghdad+Civil+Cemetery%2C+Iraq&columns=*,0,0 entry] for this typescript. However it appears to be only available at the Library in Salt Lake City, (and is noted to be unavailable at 2020/05). The book has also been digitised but shows as "Protected" status ("Due to copyright restrictions, this book cannot be viewed online"), [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/642425-baghdad-civil-cemetery-iraq catalogue entry] FamilySearch Digital Library. The Digital Library is Searchable. :A search for Persian Gulf in the SoG catalogue includes the following entry:

*Baghdad [https://www.stevebusterjohnson.com/raf-hinaidi-burials-database Burials at Hinaidi RAF Cemetery (now Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery): Searchable Database of 299 Graves] from 1921-1937. 196 of the 299 graves are for Royal Air Force casualties from eight RAF squadrons. There are also 71 graves for British Army personnel, 2 Royal Navy and 30 civilian. There are additional internal links about the cemetery. ''6 Squadron, Books & Early Military Aviation'' website.*[[British Library]] India Office Records catalogue entry [httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2adetails/r/records.aspx?cat=0594ddbcaf1-e0dd-4cd4-iorg_4&cid=18bb9-10154895856e6b#1-10 Factory Records: Persia and the Persian Gulf IOR/G/29] 1620-1822*British Library India Office Records catalogue entry [httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2abrowse/r/h/records.aspx?cat=05999dcdf9e-ad3e-46e1-b00c-r15_3&cid=1#1 0a4f0d54903a Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf IOR/R/15] 1763-1951. Although there were Agencies at Basra ( Basrah) and Baghdad, there are no records in this series for these Agencies.

* This A Rootsweb India Mailing List post suggested searching the [[The National Archives|National Archives]] database, as "some very surprising information on my grandparents" was found, her father having been born in Baghdad in 1895.<ref> george legge [Mary]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151119230611/http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301775715 postDavid Rae Nelson, HEIC Civil Servant ca. 1833 - where?] suggests searching the [[The National Archives|National Archives]] database''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 3 Apr 2011, now archived. Retrieved 24 February 2020.</ref>

*"The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley ''Asian Affairs Volume XL, no. I'', March 2009 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:0gD5Jm4dgMsJ:socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf+ Pdf]. :Onley wrote the book ''The Arabian frontier of the British Raj: merchants, rulers, and the British+Agency+Baghdad+1890s&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj2sXzwFwN4gOHMx5z5ibUCaO5oC4NoPg0MPdQipi8Jg4_iqHfzFqctlZEin the nineteenth-sMa6pC9UXe5StHHavd2BZdWN_49UADUt-8fRqvB5mBzZJBZov7QLhW5vn2FOWI_TIEIYNbUodDXR&sig=AHIEtbSejff11oEcC0XAzsRkhzsli2P_Hw html version], century Gulf'' by James Onley 2007 [httphttps://socialsciencesbooks.exetergoogle.accom.ukau/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf original pdfbooks?id=8qISDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages]*This Google Books including [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=EtyOMcKnPdUC8qISDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 linkpage 118] is showing in a table which shows the Persian Gulf Division of the Bombay Postal Circle (Bombay GPO) and the Sindh Postal Circle (Karachi GPO), in Basrah and Baghdad <ref> . *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070626152039/http://bookswww.sis.googleorg.comuk/bulletin/books?id=EtyOMcKnPdUC&pg=PR9 ''The Arabian frontier of the British Raj: merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf''], page 118 by James Onley 2007 Google Books<92/ref>*Packer.pdf "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell" ] by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society No. 92 (2007''), pages 17-18. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Cf2W-vME38AJ:www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf+British+Raj+Telegraph+Baghdad&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShGH8XAHtbY8D0csv7zFY5xPGhGTwFY9zHWU_E2naeRgl8WfV2OKVL8ea4XonbuVzCiGvUz6yvZdrUM_yuw1TZLaoGycOJlai7bnhKy0K9K_oX84t-rF1tw8VjcrX0qGD6xbxQ1&sig=AHIEtbQp2F9jb0L6nPbTQs2Tlyi46CFweA html version],[http://wwwnow archived.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf original pdf]

*This [http://www.sothebys.com/appen/liveauctions/ecatalogue/2009/english-literature-history-children39s-books-illustrations-l09773/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159542701 6.html link] (Sothebys) gives details of the papers and career of Sir Harford Jones. At the age of 19, Jones was posted to Basra in the service of the East India Company, to be assistant factor. He remained in the post for a decade (1783-1794). He was Resident in Baghdad from 1798 to 1804.*This [http://www.archiveeditions.co.uk/titledetails.asp?tid=62 link] gives details of the book ''Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857'' by J. F Jones , Indian Navy, a 1998 facsimile re-publication ,one of the volumes in a series of Bombay Government Records. It includes "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad, 1855" which gives much information about Baghdad at that time. Available at the [[British Library]]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010170201/http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/Iraq/iraq_041115_britsinmesopotamia.htm The British in Mesopotamia] stanford.edu, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121101232233/http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Old_Iraq Old Magazine Articles: Iraq 1920s] oldmagazinearticles.com, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160625115053/http://www.casahistoria.net/iraq.htm The British in Mesopotamia/Iraq] casahistoria.net, now archived.*[http://wwwnews.timesonlinebbc.co.uk/tol2/newshi/worldmiddle_east/article11140712958143.ece stm "Tea and travellers - Baghdad's lost Lost British past Recalling graveyard found in Iraq"] at Al Amara, built for those in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, by the heyday banks of the British Embassy"] The Times February 28, Tigris river. 18 April 2003BBC News.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120508134151/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/22/worlddispatch.iraq "Echoes of the Past", a Baghdad graveyard] Guardian.co.uk 22 June 2004, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181228150313/http://www.mespot.co.uk / Grandpa’s Journal] , now archived. Harry James Goulter Pearman was with the Army Audit Staff in Mesopotamia. A sample page, now archived, is headed [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042646/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.12.18.shtml Sunday 18 December 1921]:Most of the diary entries are for 1921. (Note: It is difficult to navigate this site for some/all browsersto navigate this website, see hints below if you want to read additional entries. <ref>The dates of the entries of the diary are in the top LH corner of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20181228150313/http://mespot.co.uk/ Home webpage] now archived, from 21 December 1920 to 1 February 1922. The links for Before being archived, the entries from the journal are were in the format <nowiki>http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/ab.cd.ef.shtml</nowiki> , where, for a particular entry, ab is the year, cd is the month, ef is the first mentioned day in the month (all two digits)). A sample page typical example is [<nowiki>http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.1204.18.shtml Sunday 18 December </nowiki> , and most entries are similarly from 1921. Construct your own URL, using the relevant date, then use "Browse History" in the [https://archive.org/web/web.php#forum Internet Archive Wayback Machine]to obtain the archived URL. Alternatively using the Internet Archive (archive.org) link [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mespot.co.uk/* mespot.co.uk] scroll down to entries containing the word journal, and then click on the link. However, these links are not all in date order.</ref>

**Library of Congress/American Memory: [httphttps://www.memorylccn.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20090723001ha/20090723001ha44015633 Library of Congress].pdf Links to''Volume I''] 2nd edition November 1918. [http://www.memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20090723002ha/20090723002ha.pdf ''Volume II'', Provisional Issue] May 1917. ''Volume III'' January 1917. ''Volume IV'' April 1917. Volumes III and IV include additions and corrections. Direct links are [https://memoryhdl.loc.gov/service/loc.gdc/scd0001gdclccn.44015633v1 V1], [https:/2009/20090723003hahdl.loc.gov/20090723003haloc.pdf ''Volume III''gdc/gdclccn.44015633v2 V2] January 1917. , [httphttps://www.memoryhdl.loc.gov/serviceloc.gdc/gdcgdclccn.44015633v3 V3], [https:/scd0001/2009hdl.loc.gov/20090723004haloc.gdc/20090723004hagdclccn.pdf ''Volume IV''44015633v4 V4] April 1917