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The British Library’s Reading Rooms provide computer access to many websites which contain online newspapers, journals, directories etc, published both in India and Britain which may be a source of informative genealogical information.
The British Library’s [http://www.bl.uk/eresources/dbstptitles/eresourcesa.html Electronic resources & journals in our reading rooms] indicates that the "''Times of India''—1838-2001", Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Eighteenth Century Journals, 19th Century Periodicals , 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection ,the British Newspaper Archive and the Times Digital Archive are some of the databases which may be viewed online in the Library Reading Rooms. Refer [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for more details of these databases.
== Visiting the British Library ==
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**[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/imaging/products/imagingproducts.html Copy options available: paper, digital etc]. When obtaining copies on CD, please check what format they will be in so aware that you can make sure you will one researcher required technical assistance to open the CD, but this problem may possibly be able restricted to view themolder model computers.<ref>A researcher advised in this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-03/1267970970 post dated March 2010] she required technical assistance to open the CD and would have been better off in hindsight to obtain photocopies .She subsequently advised (by email to User:Maureene dated 19 May 2012) she no longer had a problem when she bought a new computer. When asked about the CD format, the British Library "apac-enquires" (by email to User:Maureene dated 15 May 2012) did not provide any information additional to that advised in the web links above, other than to say it was not possible to send copies of [small] documents as email attachments. </ref>
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