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Multicultural

Afro-Caribbean

Caribbean Family History
Data has been collected by a group of volunteers based around the world, all sharing Caribbean interests. The vision of this website is to share Caribbean family histories as a non-profit and non-invasive site
http://www.caribbeanfamilyhistory.org/

CaribbeanGenWebProject
This is the Caribbean branch of the WorldGenWeb Project, a volunteer-based project to assist family history research. Includes resource and reference information for individual Caribbean islands. For St Vincent and the Grenadines see the separate site below called SVG Ancestry
http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/

Every Generation
The online community resource to the black community with family history and history resources.
http://www.everygeneration.co.uk/

Every Generation
The online community resource to the black community with family history and history resources.
http://www.everygeneration.co.uk/

Moving Here: Caribbean
Archived website- This 'Tracing your roots' section of the 'Moving here' web site gives a great deal of information to help trace your Caribbean roots
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.movinghere.org.uk//galleries/roots/caribbean/caribbean.htm

Asian

Families in British India Society
Information for people researching families of British or Anglo-Indian descent who lived and/or served within the Indian Sub-continent from 1600 to 1947
http://www.fibis.org/

India Office Records
These are the documentary archives of the administration in London of the pre-1947 government of India. See the link to 'The India Office Family History Search', where you can search a database of around 300,000 records for British and European people in India between 1600 and 1949
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecords/indiaofficehub.html

Moving Here: South Asian
Archived website - This 'Tracing your roots' section of the 'Moving here' web site gives detailed help on researching South Asian roots
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.movinghere.org.uk//galleries/roots/asian/asian.htm

National Army Museum: Collections
Information abou the collections held by the museum. One of the resources you can search at the museum's Templer Study Centre is Hodson's card index of about 50,000 names of British army officers who served in the East India Company (EIC) or in the Indian army, as well as EIC civil servants and officers of ships.
https://www.nam.ac.uk/collections

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller

Romany and Traveller Family History Society
Family history site for people interested in their British Gypsy and Traveller roots. Includes examples of some Gypsy first names and surnames; details of the society's many publications; catalogue of books in the Robert Dawson Romany Collection, housed at the University of Reading; and links to many other sites
http://www.rtfhs.org.uk/

Italian

Anglo Italian Family History Society (AFHS)
AFHS helps anyone trying to trace their Italian ancestry anywhere in the United Kingdom and back to Italy. Site includes useful resources and links.
http://www.anglo-italianfhs.org.uk/

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