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**See [[British Army]]
**Indian Army. There is an incorrectly titled dataset "British Army, Indian Volunteer Force Medal Awards 1915-1939", located under Armed forces & conflict/Medal rolls and honours. The information for each transcript was extracted from the Indian Army Orders by Kevin Asplin.
**findmypast category "Armed Forces & Conflict/ Other Wars & Conflicts" contains a database
*:"British Subjects Who Died In The Service Of The Indian Empire", (introduced 2018/08/10).<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-subjects-who-died-in-the-service-of-the-indian-empire British Subjects Who Died In The Service Of The Indian Empire] findmypast.</ref> No details of the source of this database is provided, but it is most likely taken from the Naval & Military Press reprint ''Soldiers Of The Raj'', originally in two volumes published in 1910 as ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest''. The latter two volumes are available online, (free), see [[Cemeteries#Inscriptions in online books|Cemeteries - Inscriptions in online books]]. and note that the content does not appear to be restricted to "Armed Forces & Conflict".
*findmypast category "Newspapers and periodicals". Online newspapers. See [[Newspapers]].
*findmypast category "Census, Land & Surveys"
**Census records may be useful for locating children at school in Britain, whose parents are in India. Census records are also available on Ancestry. Note: 1911 Census of Scotland is not included - this is available on ScotlandsPeople.
**This category also contains electoral registers which may be useful if you are tracing a person who has returned or immigrated to the UK. The main database is "England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1832-1932", although there are gaps in the records for various years, and not all constituencies are included (ongoing project). These records are displayed as pdf documents. There is also the associated dataset "England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1832-1932 Image Browse". Read the findmypast Search tips. There are also electoral registers on Ancestry.
*findmypast category "Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs", "British In India, Directories 1792-1948 Browse",<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-in-india-directories-1792-1948-browse British In India, Directories 1792-1948 Browse]findmypast.</ref> introduced 2018/05/18. Of the titles examined as a sample, all were freely available elsewhere, (and in fact may be the same digital files), see the Fibiwiki pages [[Directories online]], [[Newspapers and journals online]] and [[Indian Army List online]]. Additionally, it is necessary to use the search, (or browse) to find the exact years of publication available. These publications are '''not''' currently searchable by name. The findmypast viewer for this database is slow, and it would be quicker to view a volume elsewhere.
==Ancestry database==
