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British Library webpage *[http://www.blfamilysearch.ukorg/reshelpeng/findhelpsubjectlibrary/historyfhlcatalog/genealogy/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/willsandadministrations/willsadminsupermainframeset.html Wills and Administration] with sources from the asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=+Probate+India&prekeyword=+Probate+India Office Records<br>Note that if you are searching for a person who lived out of Calcutta and Microfilms in the other capitals, upFamily History Library] -countrya list obtained by a keyword search ('probate, India') of filmed India Office records in the mofussil, they will probably be found in the records of the District Courts, not the Supreme Courts[[LDS]] (Mormon) Family History Library Catalogue.
The LDS (Mormon) Family History Library Catalogue contains many films of records which originated in the India Office. This [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=+Probate+India&prekeyword=+Probate+India link], obtained by a keyword search for : Probate, India lists them out
as this info applies to all types of record, have moved to BL page. some reorganising
==Records==
The [[British Library]] webpage [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/history/genealogy/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/willsandadministrations/willsadmin.html Wills and Administration] lists sources in the [[India Office Records]]. Note that if you are searching for a person who lived outside of Calcutta and the other capitals, up-country, in the Mofussil, they will probably be found in the records of the District Courts, not the Supreme Courts.
==FIBIS resources==
The following information is available on the FIBIS Search database.
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=14&s_id=30 Limited Administration Act Books] relating to India 1830 to 1839
If you want to obtain a copy of a will, to which that you have found a reference for in FIBIS’s transcriptions from the British Library’s India Office records, this [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecords/indiafamilyresearch/iofamilyresearch.html India Office Records link] gives you will ned to visit or contact details at the very bottom of the webpage. A researcher advised that the CD she received from the [[British Library containing the will could not be read by her computer so she needed to contact her local computer shop, which cost her more, so enquire ]]. which versions are available.
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