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'''See also general article: [[Church records]]'''
If your ancestors were baptised, married or buried in a European church in [[British India]], then the church records should have been transcribed and sent to the capital of the Presidency, where they would later have been forwarded on to London. These records were indexed and about 80% of church records in British India are believed to have survived. You can access these records at the [[British Library]], on subscription website [http://www.findmypast.co.uk/ Findmypast] or at LDS [[Family History Centres]]. The FIBIS website has extensive information on locating [[church records]] on microfilm for British India.
However, your Portuguese ancestors may not have lived in British India (i.e. that portion of India that was controlled by the British - this grew from a very small area in 1600 to almost all of India by 1947). In this case, the church records will not be kept at the British Library.
Pauline McGregor Currien has transcribed indexes to baptisms in the [http://web.archive.org/web/20070515051155/users.rootsweb.com/~indwgw/lisbon.htm British Factory at Lisbon, Portugal 1721-1807].
See '''[[Calcutta#Churches and missions|Calcutta - Churches and missions]]''' for Roman Catholic churches with a Portuguese connection, including details of the book published in 1915 in Calcutta ''The Registers & Inscriptions of the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Baithakhana (1810-1914)'' by Fr H Hosten.
===LDS===
Some Portuguese church records have been microfilmed by the [[LDS]] and are available at LDS [[Family History Centres]]. Records of visits by the Archbishop of Goa or his representative to review the spiritual affairs of each parish and its members, 1747-1927, are available on two microfilms numbered '''1566354''' and '''1566355''', which have now been digitised, and are available to view on home computers.
The LDS have also microfilmed records of 146 locations within Goa. These are listed under [[Goa Church Records]].
===Records in Goa===
*[http://www.goa.gov.in/departments/archives.html Department of Archives and Archaeology, Government of Goa]. Records include "registers of Baptism, Births & Deaths, Deeds & Wills as well as some very useful records from churches in Goa". Most of the records are in Portuguese & Marathi (Modi) though quite a few documents are also in Sanskrit, Persian, English, French & Vietnamese. it is not known whether these records have been filmed by the [[LDS]], refer above, or whether they are different records.
===FIBIS resources===
*[http://wwwfibis.search.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=123&s_id=127 St. Thomas' Mount Portuguese Mission Church] transcription of Baptism Registers 1751 - 1880
==Other Records==
*''Albuquerque and Early Portuguese Settlement in India'' by H. Morse Stephens. Hardcover reprint edition (2000).
*''Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India'' by Henry Scholberg. Hardcover edition (1982).
*''The Portuguese in India'' by Frederick C. Danvers. Hardcover reprint edition (1988). [http://www.archive.org/stream/portugueseinindi015750mbp#page/n1/mode/2up ''The Portuguese In India Being A History Of The Rise And Decline Of Their Eastern Empire. Volume 1''] by Frederick Charles Danvers 1894 ArchiveAvailable online,org. Please note this volume is incomplete and only contains the first 160 pages. [http://www.archivesee below.org/stream/portugueseinindi02danv#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2'']
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ Dutch and Portuguese Colonial Possessions in Asia 1498-1961] - Marco Ramerini has compiled a collection of Portuguese Colonial History Links and has an extensive site.
*[http://www.dholmes.com/master-list/india.html Portuguese Genealogist Master List: India] from Doug da Rocha Holmes’ [http://www.dholmes.com/rocha1.html Portuguese Genealogy]
*[http://himalmag.com/lost-rulers-malabar-coast/ "Lost rulers of the Malabar Coast"] by N P Chekkutty 10 December 2012 himalmag.com. "Tales of love and loss from the heyday of Portuguese rule in Kochi".
*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/the-spirit-of-an-era/article4781426.ece "Survivors of Time: The spirit of an era"] by Anusha Parthasarathy June 4, 2013. Part 2: [http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/remains-of-the-day/article4806370.ece "Remains of the day"] June 12, 2013 ''The Hindu''. The Portuguese in early Madras.
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/carton.html "Beyond "Cotton Mary": Anglo-Indian Categories and Reclaiming the Diverse Past"] by Adrian Carton ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 5, Number 1, 2000. Includes mention of the Portuguese.
*Language and handwriting aids
**[https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Portugal Portugal Genealogy] includes [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Portuguese_Genealogical_Word_List Portuguese Genealogical Word List]. FamilySearch (LDS) Wiki.
*:[https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/help#/ FamilySearch Indexing Help] then select "Language Resources and Handwriting Helps"/Portuguese
**[https://script.byu.edu/Pages/the-portuguese-documents-pages/po-introduction(english) Script Tutorial: Portuguese Documents] Brigham Young University.
**Rudy Schmidt’s [https://web.archive.org/web/20130116092017/http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/International/Portuguese.htm Portuguese/English Glossary of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms], now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160528060219/http://www.colleensen.com/pdf/portuguese_influence.pdf "The Portuguese Influence on Bengali Cuisine"] by Colleen Taylor Sen. Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1996. colleensen.com, now archived.
*[https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/77948/8/02whole.pdf ''A Culinary History Of The Portuguese Eurasians: The Origins Of Luso-Asian Cuisine In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries''] by Janet P. Boileau. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, 31 August, 2010. The Indian content is in the latter parts: Part 2 "The Luso-Asian World" page 120. Part 3 The "Development of Luso-Asian Gastronomy" page 164.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/firstbookeofhist00cast ''The first booke of the Historie of the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias : enterprised by the Portingales in their daungerous nauigations in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name : vvhich historie conteineth much varietie of matter, very profitable for all nauigators and not vnpleasaunt to the readers''] by Hernan [Fernao] Lopes de Castanheda, translated into English by N L [Nicholas Lichefield] 1582 Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YkoC-kx4TAgC&pg=PT6 Google Books version]
*''The travels of Pietro della Valle in India : from the old English translation of 1664'', edited by Edward Grey (late Bengal Civil Service) 1892 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/travelsofpietrod00dell Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelspietrode00havegoog Volume II]. Pietro della Valle arrived in India 10 February 1623 at Surat, embarking from Goa 16 November 1624. Includes
**[https://archive.org/stream/travelsofpietrod00dell#page/n31/mode/2up "Historical Sketch of the Rise and Fall of the Portuguese Power in India"] page x, Volume I
*''The Portugues Asia: Or, The History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portugues; Containing All Their Discoveries from the Coast of Africk, to the Farthest Parts of China and Japan; All Their Battels by Sea and Land, Sieges and Other Memorable Actions; a Description of Those Countries, and Many Particulars of the Religion, Government and Customs of the Natives, &c. ... '' by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, a Portuguese historian. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens 1695
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=necrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP3 Volume I] Google Books; [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.13625 Volume II] Archive.org mirror from Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online; [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023860281.0x00000d Volume II], [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023866953.0x00000d Volume III] Qatar Digital Library. [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A40887.0001.001 Transcribed version, Tomes [Volumes<nowiki>]</nowiki>I-III], note however, the contents of some of the various Tomes (Volumes) are listed out of chronological order. lib.umich.edu. There was a three volume reprint edition published in 1971.
*''Rise of Portuguese Power in India 1497-1550'' by RS Whiteway 1899 File 1 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91397 Archive.org]; File 2 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38851 Archive.org]. Mirror files from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.7029 ''The Portuguese In India Being A History Of The Rise And Decline Of Their Eastern Empire. Volume 1''] by Frederick Charles Danvers 1894 Archive.org. [http://www.archive.org/stream/portugueseinindi02danv#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2''] Archive.org . [http://www.archive.org/stream/portugueseinindi02danv#page/536/mode/2up Index] for both volumes. [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.7030/page/n1 Additional Vol.2 file] Archive.org. Two of the digital files are mirror versions from Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189343 Reprint edition Volume I] Archive.org/DLI Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfThePortugueseInBengal ''History of The Portuguese in Bengal''] by J J A Campos 1919 Archive.org. File appears to be originally from the Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.233560 Archive.org mirror version].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924065780813?urlappend=%3Bseq=243 ''Portuguese Possessions in India''] Handbook prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office-No 79. Reprint edition. Originally published 1920 London: H.M. Stationery Office. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11939 World Digital Library version], Library of Congress.
*[https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11921/ ''The Formation of the Portuguese Colonial Empire''] Number 115 in a series of more than 160 studies prepared by the British Foreign Office as background information for British delegates at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. World Digital Library, Library of Congress. [https://archive.org/details/the-formation-of-the-portuguese-colonial-empire/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280840 ''Malabar And The Portuguese''] by K M Panikkar 1929. Full title: ''Malabar and the Portuguese. Being a history of the relations of the Portuguese with Malabar from 1500 to 1663''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57375 ''Portuguese Voyages 1498-1663''] by Charles Ley 1943 Archive.org/DLI Collection.
*[https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP636-4-61 ''Portuguese Colonization in the Sixteenth Century - A Study of the Royal Ordinances (Regimentos)''] by A. Da Silva Rego 1957. British Library EAP Digital EAP636/4/61 .
*[https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofgo0000scho/page/n7/mode/2up ''Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India''] by Henry Scholberg with Archana Ashok Kakoder and Carmo Azevado 1982 Archive.org Books to Borrow
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofchurcho00gedd ''The History of the Church of Malabar, from the time of its being first discover'd by the Portuguezes in the year 1501 : giving an account of the persecutions and violent methods of the Roman prelates, to reduce them to the subjection of the Church of Rome : together with the Synod of Diamper, celebrated in the year of Our Lord 1599 : with some remarks upon the faith and doctrine of the Christians of St. Thomas in the Indies, agreeing with the Church of England, in opposition to that of Rome. Done out of Portugueze into English''] by Michael Geddes 1694 Archive.org.
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