Photos from the old cemetery at Jalna, East of Aurangabad in Maharashtra, have now been transcribed and uploaded to the FIBIS database. Almost all the graves are between 150 and 200 years old. Our thanks to The Pilgrim Trust for funding the photography and to Sandra Seage for the transcriptions.” You can view the index […]
Our photographer photographed many graves at Kydganj Cemetery, Allahabad where the inscriptions were missing. We have been able to identify the graves with information gratefully received from the Archaeological Survey of India who have taken the time to check the Kydganj burial register. Photos of other graves where the inscriptions are still visible will be studied […]
Our photographer has photographed over 200 graves at Lonavala Christian Cemetery and the monument inscriptions have now been uploaded to the FIBIS database website. Photographs of the graves are also available for a small donation. You can view the index here. Our thanks go to Hilary Condon transcribing these images and to The Pilgrim Trust for helping […]
FIBIS will have a stand at Family Tree Live at Alexandra Palace this April. Richard Morgan will be speaking on “Records of the British in India” at the show on Friday 26 April. The goal for Family Tree Live is to create a family history show that people of all levels of genealogy knowledge and curiosity […]
Video recordings of some of the FIBIS 20th Anniversary Conference lectures are now available in the members area of the FIBIS website. FIBIS members can find them in the Lectures category after logging into the website. More than one hundred people attended FIBIS’s twentieth anniversary conference, where they listened to lectures from experts in fields […]
At the recent FIBIS 20th Anniversary Conference, I felt moved by the talk given by trustee Geraldine Charles. She asked us to consider commemorating all those who had fought in WW1 and, in keeping with the theme of conference , focused her talk on those in India who were recruited into the armed forces. She mentioned […]
Over 200 images of the memorials at St Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai have been uploaded to the FIBIS website along with the transcribed inscriptions. Our thanks go to Nigel Penny who photographed and transcribed the memorials. Search memorials See also Bombay – fibiwiki article with information useful to people researching ancestors in Bombay. FIBIS Events Calendar […]
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