Family History

Asian Family History

Empire's Children
Empire's children is a Channel Four web site full of useful family history and general history resources for anyone with connections to the British Empire. To find country-specific tips, click the 'Research your Empire story' button at the top of the site's home page, then click the country you need from the list
http://channel4.empireschildren.co.uk/

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
This 'Tracing your roots' section of the 'Moving here' web site gives detailed help on researching South Asian roots
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/ galleries/ roots/ asian/ asian.htm

National Army Museum: Research and Collections
Follow the links for family history. 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
http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/ research/

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