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'''Main article: [[Domestic Occurrences]]'''
'Domestic Occurrences' was a section found in many periodical publications detailing birth, marriage and death announcements. It is easy to search these records in the digitized digitised versions of newspapers, journals and directories that are available online. FIBIS has a wealth of transcribed resources. The same publications may also contain notification of changes of name by deed poll but these will generally be in different section of the publication, not specifically under the heading 'Domestic Occurrences'.
==Records at The National Archives==
Some birth and death registration did occur in British India. It commenced in the 1860s but was only compulsory in some areas, with other places adopting voluntary registration. The records are obtained from local Municipal Corporations, therefore researchers must know where a birth occurred. Some people born in India pre 1947 have copies of their birth registration. Recent copies are known to have been obtained from the Shimla Municipal Corporation following a visit there, but it is not known whether these documents are generally available, or how far back existing records go.
==Change of name by deed poll==
Notice of a change of name by deed poll may possibly appear in the various official ''Gazettes'' published in India, and in newspapers generally. As an example, a resident of Calicut and his wife changed their surname from Grosholz to Godfrey. [https://archive.org/details/gazette.stgeorge.TG1918.TG1918JUN11/page/n101/mode/1up ''Fort St. George Gazette'' 11 June 1918, page 948 (digital page 101)] Archive.org.
For online ''Gazettes'' published in India, see [[Newspapers and journals online#Gazettes of India Collection on the Internet Archive (Archive.org)|Newspapers and journals online - Gazettes of India Collection on the Internet Archive (Archive.org)]]. Other online newspapers are linked from the same Fibiwiki page.
<br> ''The London Gazette'' is another possible source, for online editions see [[British Army#Records|British Army - Records]] and scroll to the entry "The [London] Gazette". (An example of a man with a connection to India.<ref> Change of name from Heilgers to Hillyers. [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31271/page/4481 ''The London Gazette'' Publication date: 4 April 1919 Issue: 31271 Page: 4481]. Pre-war, this man had been head of a well-known Calcutta merchant house.</ref>).
