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*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/eng/librarysearch/fhlcatalogcatalog/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 2020/02). :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.
*[[British Library]] India Office Records catalogue entry [httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2adetails/records.aspx?cat=059r/4ddbcaf1-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/records.aspx?cat=059h/99dcdf9e-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>
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