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Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial Volume – 1881

31 Jan | News,

An index of names from the following book has been compiled and uploaded to the FIBIS database website.

Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial Volume
by the Rev B H Badley
Revised Edition, 1881, Pub: Lucknow, Methodist Episcopal Church Press

2587 names have been indexed from this book which records Protestant Missionaries who have served in India. There are no Roman Catholics included. It can be found at:
http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionary00badliala#page/n3/mode/2up . For a quick link to this and other editions, do see the FIBIwiki page title Missionary; http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Missionaries As  only minimal information has been extracted to the index, researchers are strongly advised to consult the source book. Information indexed includes: Surname; Given names or initials; title; page number; name of missionary society; start year – which may be a year of birth, but otherwise the first year (if any) shown in the entry; end year – if given may be death, retirement, return home; if not given then service probably continues; work – only included when a quick summary was possible; stationed at – usually last place given; from – place or country of birth where available; remarks – retirement, death etc.

Go to  http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=889 to view the dataset.