The
Families In British India Society (FIBIS) is a
genealogicalGenealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
organisation who assist people in researching their family history and the background against which their
ancestorAn ancestor is a parent or the parent of an ancestor ....
s led their lives in British India.
FIBIS was formed in November 1998 to provide research and social history resources for India from 1600 up to (and even after)
Indian IndependenceThe History of the Republic of India began on August 15, 1947 when India became an independent Dominion within the British Commonwealth. Concurrently the Muslim-majority northwest and east of British India was separated into the Dominion of Pakistan. Lord Louis Mountbatten, and later Chakravarti...
in 1947. It covers the earlier part of the
British East India CompanyThe East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
's history and provides help and advice on researching it both in England and abroad, and all EIC stations, including those outside the Indian sub-continent.
The Society states that it "does not concentrate on the Raj period nor solely on the British in India because to do so would exclude a number of other nationalities who played an important part and became part of the Indian culture."
FIBIS provides books, journals, online resources and community facilities to assist research into individual's ancestors and the social structure in which they lived.
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The
Families In British India Society (FIBIS) is a
genealogicalGenealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
organisation who assist people in researching their family history and the background against which their
ancestorAn ancestor is a parent or the parent of an ancestor ....
s led their lives in British India.
Scope
FIBIS was formed in November 1998 to provide research and social history resources for India from 1600 up to (and even after)
Indian IndependenceThe History of the Republic of India began on August 15, 1947 when India became an independent Dominion within the British Commonwealth. Concurrently the Muslim-majority northwest and east of British India was separated into the Dominion of Pakistan. Lord Louis Mountbatten, and later Chakravarti...
in 1947. It covers the earlier part of the
British East India CompanyThe East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
's history and provides help and advice on researching it both in England and abroad, and all EIC stations, including those outside the Indian sub-continent.
The Society states that it "does not concentrate on the Raj period nor solely on the British in India because to do so would exclude a number of other nationalities who played an important part and became part of the Indian culture."
Resources
FIBIS provides books, journals, online resources and community facilities to assist research into individual's ancestors and the social structure in which they lived. They also host a
wikiA wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages, using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor, within the browser...
to aid information sharing and research.
Transcription and publishing of records
In conjunction with the
British LibraryThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is located in London and is one of the world's largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats; books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents,...
, FIBIS have a programme of transcribing and publishing
East India CompanyEast India Company was a historical English company, founded in 1600, and chartered with the monopoly of trading with Southeast Asia, East Asia, and India...
and
India OfficeThe India Office was the British government department responsible for the direct administration of India during the British Raj. It was headed by the Secretary of State for India, who was a member of the British Prime Minister's Cabinet.- Origins :...
material that was previously only available in the
India Office RecordsThe India Office Records are a very large collection of documents relating to the administration of India from 1600 to 1947, the period spanning British rule in India...
at the library. These
transcriptionTranscription is the conversion into written, typewritten or printed form, of a spoken-language source, as in the proceedings of a court hearing. It can also mean the conversion of a written source into another medium, as by scanning books and making digital versions...
s are freely available to the general public in searchable form on the FIBIS website. Information available covers areas including ecclesiastical records (births, marriages and deaths), passenger lists, military history and wills.
See also
- British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia
British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia is an organisation founded in 1976 that seeks to maintain and record for posterity European cemeteries in former South Asian territories of the East India Company such as India, Pakistan and Malaysia....
- British Raj
The British Raj was the British colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; it can also refer to the period of dominion, and even the region under the rule...
- Company rule in India
Company rule in India refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent...
- Family history
Family history is the systematic narrative and research of past events relating to a specific family, or specific families.- Introduction :...
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