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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-05/1306290994 post] is about the book ''The Autobiography of a Wanderer In England and Burma: Memoirs of a Former Mayor of Rangoon'' by Charles Haswell Campagnac, published 2011, with more details [http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-autobiography-of-a-wanderer-in-england-burma/15691800# here]. The author was a lawyer born 1886 in India, with a French Huguenot ancestor who worked for the King of Oudh. Covers the period to World War 2.
*Rootsweb India Message Board [http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/1090.1.3.1/mb.ashx post] mentions an ancestor born early 1700s in France, who emigrated to Isle de Bourbon (now Reunion Island) , (still an overseas department of France), around 1750. At some point several of the family went to India, where they became plantation owners in the South.
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*[http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogie/about-anne.html The French Genealogy Blog] (in English) which contains links to some of the online Departmental Archives
*[http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogie/2012/04/an-ancestor-from-pondich%C3%A9ry.html An Ancestor From Pondichéry?] The French Genealogy Blog (in English)
**Gives links for online listings of all of the births, marriages and deaths in Pondichéry from 1676 through 1784. (see above)
**[http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/822 ''Society and economy of the French colonies with special reference to Pondicherry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (A.D. 1674 - 1754)''] by Mary. A. Sr Georgia May 1996
*A [http://www.weeklyvoice.com/headlines/napoleons-soldiers-in-maharaja-ranjit-singhs-army review] of the book ''The Lion’s Firanghis: Europeans at the Court of Lahore'' by Bobby Singh Bansal 2010 "By the 1830s a multifarious array of French, [[German|Prussian]], Spanish, [[Dutch]] and Italian officers had descended on the Anglo-Punjab frontier, hoping to enlist in the services of the opportunistic Maharajah…" Available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0956127010 FIBIS Shop]
*French and Latin language aids
**[https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/France France] includes [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/France_Language_and_Languages France Language and Languages] which includes a Word List. Family Search (LDS) Wiki. [https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/results.html?q=%22Reading%20French%20Handwritten%20Records%20%22 Reading French Handwritten Records] from [https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html FamilySearch Learning Center]
