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In a fashion similar to [[Birth, marriage and death records|Birth, marriage and death]] announcements in the newspapers of today, in the 19th century it was often the custom to make such announcements in the '''Domestic Occurrences''' section of publications. Accordingly, for [[British India]], a significant number are to be found in [[newspapers|newspapers/journals]] and [[directories|almanacs/directories]]. It should be recognized that such announcements were often made some two years after the event.
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'.
Death information can be also be found in official ''List''s. As an example, the Fibiwiki page [[Post and Telegraphs Department#Records|Post and Telegraphs Department]] indicates that a researcher found a December 1929 death in ''Civil Lists Indian Posts and Telegraph Department May 1930 to April 1932'', British Library IOR V/13/260. This death was not recorded in the records on [[Findmypast]].
==External links==
*India List post<ref>India List [https://web.archive.org/web/20210916022916/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=&thread=520692 post] </ref> by Noel Clark dated 29 November 2013 advises that Ancestry (a pay site) has a database "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976"<ref> [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1897 "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976"]</ref>, part of Newspapers and Periodicals. "It is possible to search this database for "colonial" entries just using the "keyword" field. No personal name is required. So, for example, it is possible to find all the notices that refer to India, Pakistan etc., to a specific place, such as Simla, Murree, etc."
== References ==
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