“Your brick wall is in India!” – so says the Families in British India Society, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary with a 3-day conference taking place near Oxford in September.
What time period does FIBIS cover?
The historical context of FIBIS’s focus is well-known: between the early 1600s, when the first traders working for the East India Company arrived in India, and 350 years later in 1947 when India achieved independence, thousands of people from the UK lived, worked, married, had children, and died in India, and many of them returned to the place of their birth.
What sort of records does FIBIS provide to researchers?
Digging more deeply than baptisms, marriages, and burials, FIBIS seeks to locate name-rich sources that mention these individuals, to transcribe the sources,…