Another ninety images of headstones taken at Maymyo Cemetery, Burma have been kindly sent to FIBIS by Jenny Hoy. The inscriptions have been transcribed, indexed, added to the FIBIS database website and combined with the existing index to ease searching.
The modern name of Maymyo is Pyin Oo Lwin. Maymyo was the principal hill station of Burma, in Mandalay District, Upper Burma and the summer capital of British Burma.
Read more about Maymyo in Fibiwiki
Jane and Tony Bennett recently visited Kanlog Cemetery near Shimla and kindly supplied us with the following material for our website.
This material, and other information they provided, have helped us create a page on Kanlog cemetery in fibiwiki.
Long time FIBIS member, Geoff Summers, has written an extremely informative blog post about his visit to Sewri cemetery. As well as providing a brief history of the cemetery, Geoff explains how he went about finding his ancestors grave, provides some useful contact details and reports on the condition of the cemetery.
The article is available in the FIBIS Social Network which is accessible to FIBIS members only. If you are not a member you can join online in the FIBIS Shop.
A partial index with details of 296 monument inscriptions at Hosur Road Cemetery, Bangalore has been uploaded to the FIBIS database website. This is in addition to the 102 images of Hosur Road Cemetery previously uploaded. FIBIS hope to be adding further images in the near future.
This months guest blogger in the FIBIS Social Network is long time FIBIS member Liz Chater. Liz is well known for her expert knowledge in researching Armenians in India and her blog post is entitled Just How DO You Research Armenians in India?
To read Liz’s post login to the FIBIS Social Network and visit the blog page. The FIBIS Social Network is for FIBIS members only. To join FIBIS visit the FIBIS Shop and join online.