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garibaldired
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British Library India office

Post by garibaldired » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:35 pm

In case anybody is interested you can now carry out a surname search on the British Library India Office website at http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI

Meg

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Post by SarahND » Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:37 pm

Thanks, Meg!
I just found some rellies in there! Now I'm struggling with the price list :shock: and am thinking, well maybe next time I'm in the U.K. I'll go in and look myself... :roll:

Thanks for the tip :D
Sarah

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Post by speleobat2 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:19 pm

What an interesting website! Thanks for posting this one Meg.

I've often wondered where all the young males in various branches of my family went when they vanished into thin air especially in the early 1800's. I realize that many of them simply died of infectious diseases etc., but surely not all of them! This gives me one more place to search since both military service and commerce provided many jobs.

I even found another Clerihew whom I'd never heard of on the first search! :D

Carol
Looking for: Clerihew, Longmuir/Longmore, Chalmers, Milne, Barclay in Newhills,
Munro, Cadenhead, Raitt, Ririe/Reary

mallog
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Post by mallog » Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:57 am

Just did a quick search and found a burial in 1900 for someone I had on a 1901 Census in Glasgow. :oops: Back to the drawing board :lol:
Anderson, McAlpine, Blue - Argyll
Dunn Fife /ML
Coutts, McGregor - Perth/Govan
Glen, Crow, Imrie - Angus
Scott & Pick ML
Mason - Co Down

garibaldired
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Post by garibaldired » Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:24 pm

Oh dear, Mallog :( How frustrating!

Glad it's proved of use to others anyway.

Regards,
Meg
Main family lines are Harpers from Midlothian, Fife & Kinross-shire, and Dobies/Dobbies from Midlothian. Also Strathearn, Stobie, Layden and Downie.