British in India

Here are a collection of links to sites regarding cemeteries etc that may of of help to those of us who have ancestors who lived in India.

Firstly the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia. Set up in 1976 to care for, and to record, European cemeteries wherever the East India Company set foot. It is estimated that some two million European men, women and children are buried in the Indian subcontinent alone.

http://www.bacsa.org.uk/

Online access to burials in India. An arduous process to digitise records of more than 100,000 burials and 20,000 graves has been undertaken for four public cemeteries in Kolkata, Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Tollygunge (Russa Road South, First Lane) and Khidderpore (St.Stephen�s �Sailors� Cemetery) and South Park Street Cemetery & also of Bhawanipore so that the foreigners visiting the city to trace their ancestral roots can locate them at the click of a mouse.

http://www.burialsinindia.net/

Families in British India Society. This society offers online searching of their extensive indexes plus podcasts.

http://www.fibis.org/ 

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About Linda Elliott

History, particularly Family History is my passion. I have worked in libraries & archives, I have taught family history as extra mural courses and have worked as a professional family history researcher. It seemed a shame to have all this knowledge & experience and not share it with others.

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