British in India records on findmypast

Alex Cox wrote a few interesting blog posts for the findmypast Friday blog  over Christmas week regarding records on findmypast useful for researching family in India. I thought I would bring these to your attention as some of you might have been aware of all of these records, but I was not aware of one set. I was aware of the

• British India Office Assistant Surgeons records
• British India Office Wills & Probate records
• British India Office Births & Baptisms
• British India Office Marriages

but was not aware that the Society of Genealogists  British in India Collection was on findmypast. According to Alex “The collection is comprised of two sets of records supplied by the Society of Genealogists, British in India and the Women in India Index. British in India documents female relatives of officers of the Bengal Army, Madras Army and Bombay Army, along with British civil servants, chaplains, merchants, plantation owners, labourers and British people in India after the East India Company period. The Women in India Index was compiled my Major Vernon Charles Padget Hodson (1883-1963), Lt. Col. Herbert Kendall Percy-Smith FSG (1897-1975) and others and is packed with biographical and genealogical information on many thousands of persons, sprung from all levels of society.”