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*''The London gazetteGazette''. [Online version] 1665 -

This is the official publication of the British crown and government. Any use of the term 'gazetted' indicates that the information appeared in this newspaper the London Gazette or one of the sister publications of [http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk Scotland] or [http://www.belfast-gazette.co.uk Northern Ireland]. It gives formal notification of official, regulatory and legal information. This is a treasure store for family historians as notices are as diverse as honours and medals awarded, declarations of bankruptcy and divorce, and name changes. The military, judicial, government and ecclesiastical official appointments and promotions can be invaluable. This makes it possible, for instance, to track the careers of British Army officers and senior civil servants, which after 1860 included those in the Indian Army and India Office. The online version is about 98% complete but the physical condition and typeface of the older originals means that the rendering often has errors. Use the [httphttps://www.london-gazettethegazette.co.uk/search Gazette Search] facilityto search across all three Gazette titles, but be aware that, like much digitised material, if you do not locate what you expected to find it is always worth taking the extra time to search by date or issue number.

''Allen's Indian Mail'', as it came to be called, was a monthly newspaper formed as an offshoot of the ''Asiatic Journal''. It aimed to provide factual, up-to-date articles based on news sourced from 'every part of India, Ceylon, the Straits, China, Australasia, and the Cape of Good Hope'. An 'analytical index' supported the editors' intention of providing information in a format that made it of lasting value; while now superseded by an online search facility this still provides a good overview of the material the issues contain. Included are BMDs, military and civil promotions, troop movements, battles, disasters, ships' passenger lists and courts martial. Editions to 1857 are fully available on Google Books. See [[Directories_onlineNewspapers and journals online#Allen.27s_Indian_Mail's Indian Mail|our index to volumes]].

This daily newspaper was originally called ''The Bombay times and journal of commerce''. With Quaker involvement in the early years it had a completely different ethos to its reactionary rival ''The Pioneer''. Today it has the largest distribution of any English language newspaper in the world. Old issues are available on microfilm at large libraries. FIBIS has an ongoing project of transcribing the early birth, marriages and death entries. The APAC Reading Room at the British Library has a copy of the ''Index to the Times of India, 1973-'' but this does not appear to include domestic occurrences.Some editions can be accessed via subscription websites - for more information refer to [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Subscription_websites-online_newspapers,_journals_and_directories#Proquest_Historical_Newspapers.2C_Times_of_India.E2.80.941838-2001_option relevant FIBIWIKI article]