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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
FamilySearch.org and FamilySeach Beta merged today. There are many new features and free collections to help you with your Family History research, but those used to the old website might find it rather difficult to find their way around. It might help to read the FamilySearch.org Website Changes in the FamilySearch blog.
To access the India and Ceylon records from this site, scroll down the page to “Browse by location” and select “Asia and Middle East”.
The India Vital Records Index available on the FamilySearch is only a partial index with more records hopefully to be added at a later date. The table below shows the number of records by locality online as of April 2010.
| Locality |
Births and Baptisms, 1800-1945 |
Marriages, 1800-1945 |
Deaths and Burials, 1800-1945 |
| Bangalore |
438 |
139 |
118 |
| Bangladesh |
3,106 |
0 |
0 |
| Bengal |
433,834 |
104,999 |
309,736 |
| Bombay |
118,243 |
31,653 |
95,879 |
| Calcutta |
180 |
68 |
79 |
| Delhi |
13 |
5 |
0 |
| India |
26,633 |
13,273 |
25,438 |
| Madras |
276,641 |
53,805 |
135,279 |
| Tamil Nadu |
2,976 |
2 |
0 |
| Total |
862,064 |
203,944 |
555,534 |
Tags: baptisms, births, burials, familysearch, India, marriages, Records
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
The British Library will be holding their monthly, free, introductory training sessions in family history on the following dates in early 2011:
Wednesday, 12 January
Thursday, 17 February
Tuesday, 15 March
Wednesday, 13 April
As always, they start at 11.00 and last about one hour. To secure a place those interested should contact hrs-training@bl.uk
Tags: archives, baptisms, births, British Army, British Library, burials, Cemeteries, deaths, East India Company, India, Indian Army, marriages, Military, Records
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
The latest Familiysearch.org beta website update includes the first set of records from Sri Lanka. Visitors to the website can now browse 33965 images of baptisms, marriages, memberships, deaths, minutes, correspondence and other records of Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1677-1990. Unfortunately these records are only browsable at present and cannot be searched using the search facility.
Tags: baptisms, births, burials, Ceylon, deaths, Dutch, marriages, Records, Sri Lanka
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
The Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, which is part of the Andrews Collection at the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, Canterbury, Kent have now been made available on the Ancestry.com website. A quick search for the keyword ‘India’ produces 6,877 results
About the Index
This unique card index was compiled in England from the 1790s until about 1970 and features a collection of notices from newspapers and various official sources, such as the London Gazette. Approximately 250,000 cards include announcements of births, marriages, obituaries, and deaths abroad; notices of wills, unclaimed estates, and filings under the Colonial Probates Act of 1892 (which recognized probates from courts in British possessions); and advertisements for missing persons and people seeking next of kin. The original newspaper clippings on the cards sometimes include annotations referring to additional information from other sources.
The cards can have content on both the front and back. The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies notes that the index can be “useful for locating information about individuals who seem simply to disappear.”
via England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976 – Ancestry.com.
Tags: births, British Army, deaths, India, Indian Army, marriages, Military, Records
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
The latest dates for training sessions in using India Office Record family history sources at the British Library have been announced.
Every month members of the APAC Reference Services team offer a free, 75-minute introduction to the Department’s family history sources. Anyone is welcome to attend – participants do not have to be holders of a Library Reader Pass. The emphasis is on explaining the background to our holding returns of baptisms, marriages and burials of European Christians from all over South Asia, and providing practical guidance on how to use the name indexes.
The next sessions will be held on:
18 August
22 September
12 October
18 November
14 December
All sessions last from 11:00 to 12:15
To book a place, please contact:
Email: hrs-training@bl.uk
Tel. +44 (0)20 7412 7865
Fax +44 (0)20 7412 7641
via India Office Records: Family History Sources.
Tags: archives, baptisms, British Library, burials, India, marriages, Records
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
If, like me, you tried to take advantage of FindMyPast‘s ‘When England play, you don’t pay!’ offer last week, you were probably disappointed, as the website just couldn’t cope with the demand. FindMyPast have therefore decided to make a slightly different offer for this Friday’s match.
Here’s FindMyPasts offer for the second match on Friday, June 18.
View all the records* on findmypast for FREE and at a time of your choice, every time England plays in a World Cup match – just register by midnight (UK time) the day before.
How it works:
1. Register on the website before midnight (UK time) on Thursday, June 17. If you have already registered, you do not need to do this again.
2. Return to findmypast.co.uk any time between 9am UK time on Friday, June 18 and 9am Saturday, June 19 and sign in: you can now even watch the match as well!
3. Once you have signed in, you will have 90 minutes to search and view the records for free at your leisure (and a time of your choosing)
Not in the UK? Convert UK time to your local time.
*All records available using our Full subscription (including the 1911 Census) will be free: Living Relatives searches and Memorial scrolls are not included
via All our records free to view during every England World Cup match | findmypast.co.uk.
Tags: baptisms, burials, Census, Indian Army, marriages, Military, Records
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
FindMyPast announced today that you can view all their records that are normally only available on Full subscription (including the 1911 Census) for free during every England World Cup match – all you need to do is register. Living Relatives searches and Memorial scrolls will not be included.
How it works:
- 30 minutes before kick-off FindMyPast stop charging for 3 hours.
- Make sure you’ve registered as you’ll need to sign in to view the records.
Records available include:
- 1841 – 1911 Census
- Births, Marriages & Deaths
- Parish Records
- Migration Records
- Military Records
- Specialist Records
Of particular interest to people research family history in India might be:
- Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
- Register of passport applications 1851-1903
- Bengal Civil Service Gradation List 1869
- India Office List 1933
- East India Register & Army List 1855
- Indian Army and Civil Service List 1873
- East India Company’s Commercial Marine Service Pensions List 1793-1833
Tags: baptisms, British Army, burials, Census, India, Indian Army, marriages, Military, Records
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
I am continuing to get alot of queries regarding the new records released by the LDS. Many of these queries have been answered in previous blog posts, but one common query concerns coverage of these these records. The records online on familysearch are still only a partial index.
The following information from the familysearch website, shows the number of records by locality and hopefully it will help answer these questions.
Localities not listed may not have any records in this collection.
Most of these records date from the time period indicated in the columns below; however, there may be records before and after these dates. Record counts where the locality information was incomplete are included below under the country name. Because of this, you may wish to search only by country.
As this is an index of records compiled from various sources, it is strongly recommended that you verify the information in original records. Due to privacy laws not all records may be displayed.
| Locality |
Births/Baptisms 1800-1945 |
Marriages 1800-1945 |
Deaths/Burials 1800-1945 |
| Bangalore |
438 |
139 |
118 |
| Bangladesh |
3106 |
0 |
0 |
| Bengal |
433834 |
104999 |
309736 |
| Bombay |
118243 |
31653 |
95879 |
| Calcutta |
180 |
68 |
79 |
| Delhi |
13 |
5 |
0 |
| India |
26633 |
13273 |
25438 |
| Madras |
276641 |
53805 |
135279 |
| Tamil Nadu |
2976 |
2 |
0 |
| Total |
862064 |
203944 |
555534 |
Research Wiki > India Vital Records Index
Tags: baptisms, burials, India, marriages, Records
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
After posting yesterday’s article FamilySearch Adds New Baptisms, Marriages and Burials I have had numerous emails asking me questions regarding the new data. I spent most of yesterday going through the new data for India and found numerous new family members and I thought I would post the following observations:
- I couldn’t find any new Roman Catholic entries, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any.
- The new data seems to be from the India Office Record microfilms, but has been merged with the existing IGI data (old errors included).
- On most entries only the LDS microfilm numbers were provided and no British Library microfilm number.
- The search facility is more flexible than the old one.
- Nearly all the new entries I found for my family cannot be found in the British Library indexes for the Ecclesiastical Returns.
- Burial records are included
For those of you who have found new entries in this data that don’t appear in the British Library Ecclesiastical Returns indexes, and you want to get photocopies from British Library microfilms, you might find the following tables in the FIBIwiki useful.
I now have several new leads to follow on my next visit to the British Library and I’m sure I can’t be the only one. 
UPDATE: I just received an email from a FIBIS member confirming that he has found Roman Catholic entries.
Tags: baptisms, burials, marriages, Records
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