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'''Update 24 June 2021'''. Society of Genealogists will close 17 July 2021 for "a few months" prior to moving to new premises. '''Update September 2021''' "The final moving truck will leave the society on 30 September", and "The bulk of the collections are destined for heritage storage". The Newsletter says "As soon as we're able to update you on our new location, we will". '''CEO update 4 November 2021''' ...the "whole process could take between 6 to 9 months". '''May 2022''' SoG News advises there is limited reopening of the Library for members at the temporary premises from 18 May 2022. '''September December 2022''' SoG News advises ... "on the cusp of the purchase of a new building" and home at Unit 2, 40 Wharf Road, London, N1 7GS which is estimated to reopen in the use '''Summer of the temporary premises will continue ... "until the end of the year"2023'''.
The [https://www.sog.org.uk Society of Genealogists] (SOG) in London has information largely relating to family history in England, including its publication, the ''Genealogists' Magazine''. However, the Society also contains an impressive selection of material in its libraries relating to British India.
*[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".
*The Upper Library also houses a great many books, directories and lists relating to British India. Particularly useful is the open access to the volumes of ''Bengal Past and Present'' (although, regrettably, these do not appear to be a complete run). Note many issues of BPP are now available online, see the Fibiwik page [[Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society]].
*Boxes of Anglo Indian research correspondence relating to the period directly after independence from persons born in India, seeking to prove their nationality under the 1948 British Nationality Act. For relevant family names see [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=FIBIS_Journals Fibis journals no 2, 3 & 4]. Note however, a name index attached to the SoG papers supersedes that published by FIBIS. <ref>page 35 ''Ancestors Magazine 57''</ref>
*Some transcriptions from SoG records appear in the [[findmypast]] database British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages (under "Browse Source" select Cliff Webb Collection), including Japan Embassy Marriages (1867-1899), Tobago marriages (1788-1816), India Calcutta marriages from 1713.<ref>W., Hugh [http://hughw36.blogspot.com.au/2008_08_31_archive.html Genealoge] September 06, 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2019.</ref>. The Calcutta records are very limited in information, but some of the other records appear to contain more.
