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* The card index of Lt Col H K Percy Smith (1897-1975) contains records drawn from diverse sources - e.g army records, baptismal, marriage and burial records, newspaper cuttings and a sample of documents presented when British subjects from India applied for right of stay in the UK after 1948. Microfilms of these cards are in the Lower Library in the overseas filing cabinets. These comprise about 40 reels arranged alphabetically. Some of the baptism, marriage and burial information has been typed into lists by Lt Col Bullock (and others) and are on the open shelves in the Upper Library. At least some of these cards are now available online through the pay site [[Findmypast|findmypast]], but they are probably only a selection.
:Note that there are further Percy Smith card indexes/papers at the [[National Army Museum]], the [[Bengal Pilot Service#National Maritime Museum (Greenwich)|National Maritime Museum's records in respect of the Bengal Pilot Service]] and in the [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] archive at the British Library. The BACSA card indexes have been transcribed and now appear in the FIBIS database.
*Some church records are available and these include some records not found in the N series at the British Library. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130328033341/http://www.sog.org.uk:80/prc/overseas.shtml Overseas: Church records of India at SOGSoG] (click on India or scroll down) is now an archived page, but indicates what was available in March 2013. Search the online catalogue for current information. This link also includes other overseas countries/areas such as the [[West Indies]] (For the latter, click at the top of the SoG page in the menu for a November 2012 archived link).
*The Library contains many monumental inscriptions, or has references to series of monumental inscriptions which appeared in publications such as ''Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica'' and ''Notes and Queries''. There was a Society of Genealogists publication which referred to these series: ''Monumental inscriptions in the Library of the Society of Genealogists Part 2, Northern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Overseas'' edited by Lydia Collins and Mabel Morton 1987, also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012668992 (''Part 1 Southern England'', 1984). Note this book seems to be in the form of a catalogue, and does not appear to contain actual inscriptions. "They include inscriptions from a group of African countries (Basutoland, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone and Uganda) collected under a scheme organised by Philip Blake and Anthony Camp for the Society in the 1960s."<ref> [https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/British_Births,_Marriages_and_Deaths_Overseas#Monumental_Inscriptions British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas, section Monumental Inscriptions] FamilySearch Wiki, based on three articles in ''Family Tree Magazine'' (UK) (vol. 16, no. 9-10-12, July-Aug-Oct 2000) by Anthony Camp who was Director of Research, and later Director
of the Society of Genealogists for many years. The original articles are probably available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008526371, and possibly at SoG.</ref> In the catalogue (at 2019/10) under Uganda there is a reference to a publication ''African monumental inscriptions'' by Anthony J Camp, (comp.) and Lydia Collins, (comp.). Published London : Society of Genealogists, 1982. This book however appears likely to be an internal SoG document, not a "published" book. Search the online catalogue for current information.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20000407070023/http://sog.org.uk/genmag/index.html The ''Genealogists Magazine'': Indexes] Volume 1 April 1925 to Volume 25, 1996. Now an archived webpage.
:Research by Major V C P Hodson was published in the ''Genealogists' Magazine'' between March 1932 and December 1933 under the title, "Some Families with a Long East Indian Connection", briefly described in the just mentioned indexes as "Fam., Eng. and E. Indies" Other articles of relevance in the ''Genealogists' Magazine'' include Volume 7:01, March 1935, "Indian Inscriptions, Lists and Locations" and Volume 9:02, June 1940, "British Monuments, Bencoolen Sumatra and Bihar India".
