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Sites for Genealogists - An
Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num
General The Army Children Archive (TACA)
Chronicling British army childrens history. This archive aims to collect,
record, preserve and share details of the unique aspects of growing up as the
child of a soldier serving in the British Army, whether that growing up was done
during the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth or twenty-first
century. This site includes an Army Children Graves Register
with names arranged in alphabetical
order.
India Families in
British India Society (FIBIS). This site can help you if your European
or Anglo-Indian ancestors lived or worked in India or South Asia between 1600
and 1947. The FIBIS database offers free searching of 710,000+ individual
names
India Office Family History Search to 300,000 births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials in
the India Office Records plus biographical notes from various sources. It covers
mainly the British and Europeans in India 1600-1949. A dictionary explains
abbreviations, references and unusual terms.
FamilySearch by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. This site features free, searchable Historical Record
Collections.
The record collections for Asia and the Middle East
include:
India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947 India Deaths and Burials,
1719-1948 India Marriages, 1792-1948 India, Hindu Pilgrimage
Records India, Moga Land Ownership Pedigrees
ProQuest Historical
Newspapers includes searchable full text, page and article images
of: Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) Christian Science Monitor
(1908-1996) Los Angeles Times (1881-1986) New York Times
(1851-2006) The Irish Times (1859-2007) and The Weekly Irish Times
(1876 - 1958) The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791 - 2003)
(Manchester) The Scotsman (1817-1950) The Times of
India (1838-2001) Wall Street Journal
(1889-1992) Washington Post (1877-1993) If you live in New South
Wales you can access this collection for free from the State Library of New
South Wales. All you have to do is Register as a Client with
the State Library of New South Wales. Check what remote access libraries in your state have on
offer. Indian Cemeteries preserving
the memory of historic cemeteries in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and
Burma. The data has been contributed by volunteers and is not a complete record.
Searches are available by cemetery, surname, regiment, campaign and
occupation.
Historical Maps of
India
by Ian Poyntz features an extensive collection of pre-independance
regional and local maps for India including military maps and railway
maps.
Ancestorsonboard.com database to Outward
Passenger Lists
for voyages departing the British Isles
1890-1960 for Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA. The
free name search lists names, age, sex, departure year and port, destination
port and county plus details of transcripts and images which are available for a
fee.
The State Library of
Queensland, Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867
. This database, compiled from British Home Office (HO11) records,
details over 123,000 of the estimated 160,000 convicts to Australia. It lists
name, sentence details, ship, departure date, arrival date and place for those
convicted in England, Wales and Scotland, not Ireland. Court-martialled soldiers
from British colonies (West Indies, India, Pakistan and Canada.) sentenced to
transportation are also included.
Sri Lanka Dutch Burgher Union of
Ceylon. The Journals of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon
(JDBU) volumes 1-70 (1908-2005) are available online. These journals are an
excellent resource for researching the Dutch Burgher community in Sri
Lanka, particularly in the pre-migration period of the late 1950s. The
Journals also include 200+ family genealogies. These genealogies have been
indexed by family and digitised images are available on this site. In the
1950s these genealogies served as virtual passports to many thousands of
Burghers, who migrated to countries like Australia whose immigration policies at
the time accommodated only people of European descent.
FamilySearch by The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This site features free, searchable
Historical Record Collections
. The record collections for Asia and the Middle East
include:
Sri Lanka, Colombo District
Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1677-1990
Sri Lanka
Genealogy. This extensive site includes the naming conventions of Sri
Lanka, obituaries 1999 to date plus sections on family
trees, history, geography, people, alumni, literature, name lists, serendipity,
military, communities, help and FAQ.
The homepage for Laura
Foenander is dedicated to the
Burgher Families of Ceylon and throughout the World. This site has
extensive online information and record transcriptions. There is also
information on families in India.