Fibiwiki – January’s featured image, article and project

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Jan 042013
 

About fibiwiki

Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only has useful guides to help you with your research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during from 1600 to 1947.  If you have information you would like to contribute, or would like to help edit fibiwiki, please contact the Webmaster.

Featured article, image and project

Every month the fibiwiki moderators choose an article, image and project to feature on the front page of the fibiwiki.  This month’s featured article, image and project are:

Volunteers needed

We are still looking for volunteers for our locations project. No experience in adding information to a wiki is necessary. Volunteers are needed to help gather information needed to create a page on a location in fibiwiki. To see a developed location page, visit Cannanore. If you are interested in volunteering or would like to find out more about this, or any other project, contact the FIBIS Webmaster.

Kanlog Cemetery, Shimla

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Nov 142012
 

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.

October’s featured image, article and project in fibiwiki

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Oct 012012
 

Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947.

Every month the fibiwiki moderators choose an article, image and project to feature on the frontpage of the fibiwiki.  This month’s featured article, image and project are:

August’s featured article, image and project in fibiwiki

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Aug 022012
 

Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947.

Every month the fibiwiki moderators choose an article, image and project to feature on the frontpage of the fibiwiki.  This month’s featured article, image and project are:

June’s featured article, image and project in fibiwiki

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Jun 012012
 

Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947.

Every month the fibiwiki moderators choose an article, image and project to feature on the frontpage of the fibiwiki.  This month’s featured article, image and project are:

1st Btn Hampshire Regiment – A J Oliver family photograph collection in fibiwiki

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May 012012
 

Oliver family photo

Oliver family - Dalhousie 1931

A collection of photographs is now on display in fibiwiki with kind permission of Mr G Oliver whose ancestor, Alfred John Oliver, served in the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment.

Alfred John Oliver was born 1891 at Islington and enlisted in the Hampshire Regiment at Canterbury on 10th September, 1908 by putting on his age by one year. The 1st Btn Hampshire Regiment was stationed at Colchester and in August of that year moved to Harrow, Middlesex and then on 22ng August, 1914 sailed from Southampton on the Braemar Castle for France (WW1). Alfred was awarded the Military Medal for ‘Bravery in the Field’ and was severely wounded.

He was repatriated back to England. He met Harriet Lake who was a nurse with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANYS) and in 1919 they were married. The Regiment was then stationed at Gosport in Hampshire. The regiment then sailed for Constantinople on 30th March 1920, then moved on in 1921 to Cyprus and in 1922 to Egypt.

RSM Alfred J Oliver went out to India with the regiment on 9th March 1929. He returned to England in November, 1934.

In 1936 A J Oliver was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services in India.

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Hampshire Regt

1st Btn Hampshire Regt with trophy

 

March’s featured article, image and project in fibiwiki

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Apr 012012
 

Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947.

Every month the fibiwiki moderators choose an article, image and project to feature on the frontpage of the fibiwiki.  This month’s featured article, image and project are:

FIBIS news and Social Networking

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Jan 102012
 

There are many ways that FIBIS posts news and information to its members and to the general public. Although the most popular method is currently the emailed FIBIS newsfeed, not all news is posted via this method. FIBIS posts news on a daily basis, but as not everyone wants email from FIBIS appearing in their inbox everyday, we use other methods of social media to broadcast news and only post the more important news via the blog/email newsfeed. To help you choose the best method for you to keepup-to-date with FIBIS news here is a summary of the methods we use to broadcast our news and the sort of news we post via these social media methods.

  • FIBIS blog - This is where FIBIS posts most of its news concerning  FIBIS activities, data, events, products etc. There are several ways to keep informed of news posted to the blog.
    • Visiting the blog page http://www.new.fibis.org/category/news
    • Subscribing to the blog with a feed reader via http://www.new.fibis.org/feed
    • Subscribing to the blog via email. To subscribe via email visit www.fibis.org and enter your email address into the box on the right of the page where it says FIBIS NEWS BY EMAIL. Any news added to the blog will get emailed out to email subscribers the same day.
    • FIBIS also syndicates it’s blog via Networked Blogs http://www.networkedblogs.com/blog/fibis . NetworkedBlogs is a community of bloggers and blog followers where users can add their blog, and connect with others.
    • If you use a feed reader you might also like to subscribe to the FIBIS Product RSS Feed. This lists any new products added to the FIBIS store.
  • Facebook – (www.facebook.com/fibis.org)  - Here we post all the news posted via the blog/email plus any other triva, interesting links and photos. Other Facebook members can also post and share information via our Facebook page.
  • Twitter - (www.twitter.com/fibiswebmaster) - Here we post all the news posted via the blog/email plus any other triva, links to other news and websites.
  • Google+ -(https://plus.google.com/108126702530637752201/) – Pronounced Google plus. Here we post all the news posted via the blog/email plus any other triva, links to other news and websites. FIBIS also hopes to be using the Google+ hangout feature to chat with members and perhaps help with research enquiries soon. Google+ hangouts is a group video chat feature which also enables users to share their screen with other people in the hangout. You can find out more about Google+ hangouts at http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1215273 .
  • FIBIS Social Network – www.members-area.fibis.org – For FIBIS members only. Here we post news, stories, articles, photographs, videos/podcasts of lectures, research tips etc for FIBIS members only. Members can also post photos, articles, stories, links etc and chat online with other members.
  • YouTube – (www.youtube.com/user/fibiswebmaster) - Here we post a sample of some of the videos we have made and also share other videos we think researchers of British India family history might find interesting.
  • FiBiWiKi - (www.wiki.fibis.org) – The FiBiWiKi is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947. FIBIS has a team of volunteers that adds information practically on a daily basis.

L/F/10 Records of Service 1702-1928 index added to fibiwiki

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Dec 232011
 

If you have ancestors that were Covenanted or Uncovenanted Civil Servants in India then the L/F/10 records index recently added to fibiwiki could be of interest to you and hopefully help you with your research. Lawrie Butler has done a very thorough job of going through these records and compiling a detailed index that is an excellent and valuable addition to fibiwiki.

The L/F/10 records are records of service, 1702-1928, and contain:

  • lists of civil and uncovenanted servants
  • statements of civil establishment for the Government of India and the provincial governments
  • lists of employees of
  • the India Forest
  • Public Works
  • Post Office department
  • Burma Railway Company

See the L/F/10 category in fibiwiki for more details.

Decembers featured image, article and project in the fibiwiki

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Dec 012011
 

Fibiwiki is a wiki where you can share information useful to people researching ancestors in India. It not only contains guides to help you research, but also lists sources, and general background information about the culture, society and history of India during the period from 1600 to 1947.

Every month the fibiwiki moderators chose an article, image and project to feature on the frontpage of the fibiwiki. Fibiwiki is a website about British India that anyone can edit. This month’s featured article, image and project are:

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