Welcome to the world of British India family history

It is estimated that three million Britons lived and served in India over the three and a half centuries of British presence on the sub-continent, and it is not surprising that large numbers of family historians have discovered that they have ancestors who spent some or all of their lives in the British Empire’s ‘Jewel in the Crown’. A fascination with India, its culture and its people runs deep in our psyche.

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Really Useful Family History Show Live

FIBIS will be participating in the South West Really Useful Family History Show Live on Saturday 29th March 2025, 10:00-16:00. […]

Photographic memories of a bygone time in India. The earliest are a superb set of soldiers based there. A different set show the lifestyle of the early 1900s.

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