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*This [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Memoirs_of_Baghdad_Kurdistan_and_Turkish.html?id=d4hfAAAACAAJ 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, no. XLIII, new series published 1857. It includes "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad, 1855" which gives much information about Baghdad at that time. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01011403809
Iraq
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*See [[General Register Office]] for births, marriages and deaths.
*[[London Metropolitan Archives]] has a catalogue reference [http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+DL~2FE~2FE~2F065~2FMS11221?SESSIONSEARCH DL/E/E/065/MS11221] Certificates and Copy Certificates of Marriages at St. Peter's Church, Basra. 1922-8
*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.
**Baghdad, civil cemetery: 1886-1980
**Abadan, St Christopher's
**Habbaniya
**Kut
*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:
**''Baghdad (Civil cemetery) : MIs: Asia monumental inscriptions, vol. 1'' by Andrew Peake (8 pages, typescript)
::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:
:*Persian Gulf (& surrounds) : ''MIs: An Indian miscellany, consisting of genealogical & biographical notes & lists of monumental inscriptions'' by H Bullock and H K Percy-Smith 1941-44
*[http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_Results.aspx?CemeteryName=baghdad&send.x=55&send.y=14 Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery] is under the control of the [http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14 Commonwealth War Graves Commission] which has a searchable database.
*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.
*[http://www.idc.nl/ead/455.xml Finding Aid: British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880-1950] IDC Publishers. Original records held in the British Library India Office Records. Includes a section on Iraq.
* 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>
==External links==
:Briefly mentions the Indo-European Telegraph Department connecting India with Baghdad, in the early 1860’s, the route being Karachi, Gwadur (Baluchistan), Fao (now Fawr, Iraq), Basra, Baghdad, (then part of greater Turkey), and from there to Europe.
*This [http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/english-literature-history-children39s-books-illustrations-l09773/lot.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.
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/iraq.htm Iraq] Britishempire.co.uk
*[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.
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>
===Historical books online===
*[''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. New series. no. 43''] ''Memoirs'' by Commander James Felix Jones I.N: ''steam-trip to the North of Baghdad in April 1846 with notes on various objects of interest en route : journey for the purpose of determining the tract of the ancient Nahrwan canal undertaken in April 1848 with a glance at the past history of the territory of the Nahrwan : journey to the frontier of Turkey and Persia through a part of Kurdistan : researches in the vicinity of the Median Wall of Xenophon and along the old course of the River Tigris and discovery of the site of the ancient Opis : memoir on the province of Baghdad : notes on the topography of Ninevah and the other cities of Assyria and on the general geography of the country between the Tigris and the upper Zab founded upon a trigonometrical survey made in the year 1852''. Published 1857.
:[https://archive.org/details/b29353439/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version] lacks title page, and including [https://archive.org/details/b29353439/page/302/mode/2up "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad. 1855"]. Includes coloured images and is a mirror from [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b29353439 Wellcome Library] where pages are rotatable. Also available [http://ediscovery.qnl.qa/islandora/object/QNL%3A00013927 Qatar National Library] Read online or download. There may be difficulty opening the file. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.15202/page/i/mode/2up Archive.org], mirror from Granth Sanjeevani, Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
:There was a 1998 facsimile re-publication with the title ''Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857'' by J. F Jones , Indian Navy.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77433 ''Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist''] by Friedrich Rosen, 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. The author was born 1856. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Rosen Friedrich Rosen] Wikipedia.
*'' A Handbook of Mesopotamia'' by Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division. 1916-1917. In four volumes, (plus a supplementary volume), the first contained matters of a general nature, the other volumes contain a description of the river and land routes. Maps were issued separately.
** Hathi Trust Digital Library: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101073337972?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume I: General''] August 1916. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101073337998?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert''] January 1917. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101073338004?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Volume IV: Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan''] April 1917
**Qatar Digital Library: [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023043183.0x000001 ''Volume I'', 2nd edition] November 1918. [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023662423.0x00000b ''Volume II: Irak, the Lower Karun and Luristan (C.B. 294)''] May 1917. [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023493069.0x00000d'' Volume III''] January 1917. [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514007.0x00000b ''Supplement. Corrections and additions to Volume III (C.B. 295A'')] June 1918. [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023517293.0x00000d ''Volume IV''] April 1917. Maps are included.
**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
**A "Gazetteer of Towns" is included in Volumes II, III, and IV.
***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023662424.0x0000b5 ''Volume II: Irak, the Lower Karun and Luristan" "Gazetteer of Towns"] page 371. Qatar Digital Library
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100038379484.0x000002 ''Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq): Area 1 (Northern Jazirah) (Provisional)''] Compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. 1st edition 1922. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/42. Qatar Digital Library
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100038406030.0x000002 ''Military Report on Iraq: Area 2 (Upper Euphrates)''] Compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. 1924 IOR/L/MIL/17/15/43. Qatar Digital Library
**[https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000164 ''Military Report on Iraq (Area 6 Lower Euphrates)''] Compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. 1922 IOR/L/MIL/17/15/44. Qatar Digital Library
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100036143038.0x000002 ''Military report on Mesopotamia (Iraq) Area 8 (Western Kurdistan) (Provisional)''] Compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. 1923 IOR/L/MIL/17/15/45. Qatar Digital Library
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000166 ''Military report on Iraq. Area 9 (Central Kurdistan)''] compiled and published by the Air Ministry in London, August of 1929. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/46. Qatar Digital Library
*:[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233015423/view Three maps from Area 9] National Library of Australia.
*: ''Military report on Iraq. Area 7 Tigris'' (1923) is available at the British Library in a different series, catalogue entry [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/1r5koim/IAMS040-000564624 IOR/L/PS/20/C202/4]. Area 10. Southern Kurdistan is available at Imperial War Museums, catalogue number LBY 64866. Other areas, unknown if all were produced [Area 3. Upper Tigris], [Area 4. Middle Euphrates], [Area 5. Middle Tigris]
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000167 ''Military Report on Iraq - Volume II (Routes)''] by Air Ministry 1936 IOR/L/MIL/17/15/47. Qatar Digital Library
:''Volume I, General'' by [Great Britain] Air Ministry 1936 is available at the British Library, catalogue entry (different series) [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79qrt5/IAMS040-000564658 IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1].
*[https://archive.org/details/b3216807x/page/n7/mode/2up ''Iraq and the Persian Gulf. B.R. 524 (Restricted) Geographical Handbook Series''] September 1944 by [Great Britain] Naval Intelligence Division. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/railwaysinwester00pico ''Railways in Western Asia''] by Lieutenant-Colonel H Picot Indian Army (Retired). Published by the Central Asian Society, London 1904 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/tomesopotamiakur00soanuoft ''To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in disguise : with historical notices of the Kurdish tribes and the Chaldeans of Kurdistan''] by E B Soane c 1914 Archive.org.
**[http://gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk Gertrude Bell Archives] Newcastle University, UK. Includes transcribed letters and diaries.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61071/page/n1/mode/2up ''Twin Rivers, a Brief History of Iraq from the Earliest Times to the Present Day''] by Seton Lloyd 1943. Archive.org mirror version from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/captainshakespea0000wins/page/n5/mode/2up ''Captain Shakespear : a Portrait''] by H V F Winstone 1976. William Henry Irvine Shakespear born Multan 29 October 1878, joined the Political Department in India and in 1904 was posted to the Persian port of Bandar Abbas, the youngest Consul in the Indian administration. He was killed 24 January 1915, at which time he was Political Officer on Special Duties in Arabia. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/kurds-turks-and-arabs-politics-travel-and-research-in-north-eastern-iraq-1919-1925/page/n1/mode/2up ''Kurds Turks and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq 1919-1925''] by C J Edmonds (Cecil John) 1957 Archive.org. Note, text is presented “on its side”, so viewing may be difficult on a fixed screen. C J Edmonds was also the author of ''East and West of Zagros: Travel, War and Politics in Persia and Iraq, 1913-1921'' edited, and with an introduction by Yann Richard 2010 Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015362692 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YhewCQAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 Sample pages, Google Books]. [https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/edmonds-c-j Edmonds, C. J] iranicaonline.org
*[https://archive.org/details/arabianadventure0000glub ''Arabian Adventures : Ten years of joyful service''] by John Glubb (Sir John Bagot Glubb) 1978. The period from 1920, when he was posted to Iraq as a member of the Royal Engineers. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb John Bagot Glubb] Wikipedia.
*''A History of Iraq'' by Charles Tripp. [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00char 1st edition, 2000]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq0000trip 3rd edition 2007], (2nd edition 2002), [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00trip 2nd file 2007] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/thearabianfrontierofthebritishrajmerchantsrulersandthebritishinthenineteenthcenturygulf/mode/2up ''The Arabian Frontier Of The British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, And The British In The Nineteenth Century Gulf''] by James Onley 2007. Archive.org.
:Article [https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa"] by James Onley. ''Asian Affairs, vol. XL, no. I, March 2009'' socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk.
*[https://archive.org/details/spiesinarabiathegreatwarandtheculturalfoundationsofbritainscovertempireinthemiddleeastbypriyasatia/mode/2up ''Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East''] by Priya Satia 2008. Archive.org.
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