Organisation devoted to members researching their ancestors and the background against which they led their lives in British India #genealogy fibis.org
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Apr 12
We’re excited to announce the @WikiTreers British India Challenge, a year-long series of monthly challenges throughout 2026 focused on improving WikiTree profiles connected to British India (pre-1947). fibis.org/register-now-2026-…
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18 Apr 2025
Can either @fibiswebmaster @valmayuk help with this query from the Second World War Experience Centre? ##WWII
Unidentified Indian VC. Can anyone name him?
Original photo ISPR New Delhi GHQ @OfficialDGISPR
#WW2 #Burma #Myanmar #India #Pakistan #VC
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23 Mar 2025
This Wed 26 Mar giving talk Newham & Redbridge branch East of London Family History Society "Finding Great Uncle Bill: an overview of British India Records"
#FamilyHistory
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#EastIndia
#BritishIndia
@fibiswebmaster
@AGRAGenealogy
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10 Jan 2025
Connie Shakespear's diary and photographs of her time in the Naga Hills 1900-1902.
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15 Jan 2025
Letter written by Gandhi to Herbert William Emerson of the Government of India in 1931 - ‘My right hand needing rest, I have to write with the left hand'.
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11 Sep 2024
Dr Penny Walters: FIBIS Gala Speaker. Family History is for Everyone – A Journey Through Genealogy and Education fibis.org/dr-penny-walters-g… #history #FamilyHistory #genealogy
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3 Sep 2024
Digitised India Office Records currently available online - Untold lives blog shar.es/agcEbs
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15 Aug 2024
FIBIS have had a DNA project with Family Tree #DNA for several years now and we are pleased to announce that we now have an Ancestors Project on GEDmatch.
fibis.org/british-india-ance… #genealogy #familyhistory
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14 Aug 2024
Tragic shipwreck off Dorset granted special status #history bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0r…
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23 Jul 2024
Looking back to the sporting prowess of Indian marine cadets in the 1940s.
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13 Jul 2024
Auckland Family History Expo at the Fickling Convention Centre Mt Roskill, Sat 10 - Sun 11 August 2024. FIBIS will have a stand at this 10th anniversary event. We will provide research assistance and a cash only bookstall. Come and catch up. fibis.org/auckland-family-hi… #genealogy
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5 Jun 2024
Edward Murphy of Ireland - went with his mother to Rangoon as a young child; employed on the Prome Railway; lost his eyesight; deported to England aged 19.
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11 Jun 2024
New post! Coroner’s records from late 18th-century Bombay.
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7 Jul 2024
The Battle of Jhelum mutinyreflections.wordpress.…
For the 14th NI, the 7th of July was not the best of days, but they fell fighting.
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8 Jul 2024
Somerset Home Guard - Information Sought
Since The Somerset Home Guard a Pictorial Rollcall was published in 2004 more information has surfaced. A companion vol is planned for 2025. If you have any photographs or information that you would like considered please see this notice
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2 Jul 2024
The British Library are offering a free #familyhistory session. An introduction to birth/baptism/marriage/burial records in the India Office archives. Tues 30 July 12.00–13.15 Meet at front hall information desk @ 11.50 Email hedley.sutton@bl.uk No previous knowledge required
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5 Jun 2024
While we work to get our services fully back online, we’ve published some resources that may help you find what you’re looking for.
Visit our Asian and African Studies blog to find alternative ways of working with our Asian and African collections: bit.ly/BLResourceAsianAfrica…
ALT An early 19th-century print of a landscape view in India, with an old walled fort as the main focus. In the foreground, a man rides an elephant.
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25 Jun 2024
Due to planned electrical work, our St Pancras building will be closed on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 June.
Additionally Reader Registration and Wi-Fi will be unavailable from 16.00 on Friday 28 June until 10.00 on Monday 1 July. Our exhibition galleries will also close early on Friday and reopen at 12.30 on Monday.
Please plan ahead before your visit and see full details: bit.ly/BLVisitUpdateJune
We’re really sorry for any inconvenience caused.
ALT A photograph of the exterior of the British Library at St Pancras with the clock tower and adjacent building in view, framed by tree branches and the top of a silhouetted fence.
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31 May 2024
FIBIS will be at the East Midlands Really Useful Family History Show on Sat 15 June at the University of Nottingham, Kings Meadow Campus, Lenton Lane, NG7 2NR. We will have experts on hand to help with research enquiries a selection of books for sale fibis.org/east-midlands-real…
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24 May 2024
I am speaking at the @fibiswebmaster 25th anniversary conference in 27th - 29th Sep 2024, also on expert panel
fibis.org/25-years-conferenc…
#India #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FamilyTree #Genealogist #DNA
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