We’re excited to announce the @WikiTreers British India Challenge, a year-long series of monthly challenges throughout 2026 focused on improving WikiTree profiles connected to British India (pre-1947). https://t.co/CTPQ9T0KYP
#genealogy#familyhistory
Letter written by Gandhi to Herbert William Emerson of the Government of India in 1931 - ‘My right hand needing rest, I have to write with the left hand'.
https://t.co/psdxFw6HTe
Dr Penny Walters: FIBIS Gala Speaker. Family History is for Everyone – A Journey Through Genealogy and Education https://t.co/Gb1atAPWP1 #history#FamilyHistory#genealogy
FIBIS have had a DNA project with Family Tree #DNA for several years now and we are pleased to announce that we now have an Ancestors Project on GEDmatch.
https://t.co/pQoTL9Ilmb #genealogy#familyhistory
Auckland Family History Expo at the Fickling Convention Centre Mt Roskill, Sat 10 - Sun 11 August 2024. FIBIS will have a stand at this 10th anniversary event. We will provide research assistance and a cash only bookstall. Come and catch up. https://t.co/3OBFGt9v1B #genealogy
Edward Murphy of Ireland - went with his mother to Rangoon as a young child; employed on the Prome Railway; lost his eyesight; deported to England aged 19.
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Somerset Home Guard - Information Sought
Since The Somerset Home Guard a Pictorial Rollcall was published in 2004 more information has surfaced. A companion vol is planned for 2025. If you have any photographs or information that you would like considered please see this notice
The British Library are offering a free #familyhistory session. An introduction to birth/baptism/marriage/burial records in the India Office archives. Tues 30 July 12.00–13.15 Meet at front hall information desk @ 11.50 Email [email protected] No previous knowledge required
While we work to get our services fully back online, we’ve published some resources that may help you find what you’re looking for.
Visit our Asian and African Studies blog to find alternative ways of working with our Asian and African collections: https://t.co/SLvIloOcIm
Due to planned electrical work, our St Pancras building will be closed on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 June.
Additionally Reader Registration and Wi-Fi will be unavailable from 16.00 on Friday 28 June until 10.00 on Monday 1 July. Our exhibition galleries will also close early on Friday and reopen at 12.30 on Monday.
Please plan ahead before your visit and see full details: https://t.co/2HvNpOd3Lt
We’re really sorry for any inconvenience caused.