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* Some church records are available and these include some records not found in the N series at the British Library . [http://web.archive.org/web/20121025072558/http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/overseas.shtml Church records of India at SOG] (click on India or scroll down) is now an archived page, but indicates what was available in October 2012. Search the catalogue for current information.
* 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).
* Boxes of Anglo Indian research correspondence relating to the period directly after independencefrom 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>
===Other records of interest to the British India Family Historian ===
*Material relating to the British Navy .
* Computers in the [http://www.sog.org.uk/library/openaccess.pdf Open Access Area] provide free access to selected subscription websites including Ancestry, Origins and Find My Past and also TNA Documents Online. (This Area is open to all without charge).
For details of membership, costs for individual research sessions and opening times, please refer to the [http://www.sog.org.uk/ SOG website].
==External Links==
* An excellent article detailing the India holdings at the Society appeared in the May 2007 issue of ''Ancestors Magazine'', the magazine of [[The National Archives]]. This was a special India issue and it can be read in full at [http://issuu.com/penandsword/docs/ancestorsmagazine57 Ancestors Magazine 57]. The relevant article is on page 33 and is accompanied by pictorial examples of the information found in the Percy Smith collection.
*[http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/periods/1800after/hodsonslists.htm "On the Hodson Lists for Families of British India"] (from the website [http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/sitemap.htm Merchant Networks]) describes research by Major V C P Hodson published in the ''Genealogists' Magazine'' between March 1932 and December 1933 under the title, "Some Families with a Long East Indian Connection". 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".
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