G’day again I’ve just another thought (dangerous isn’t it?). Many Irish enlisted in the East India Company armies as well as being in British Army units in India. FMP now has the Christian records for India on its site. Those of you who watched the “Who Do You Think You Are?” episode on the comedian Alistair McGowan, will know that he started out believing that he was of Scottish descent, with his father being an Anglo-Indian born in Calcutta. Until he got to Calcutta, he apparently thought that “Anglo-Indian” meant his father was a Briton born in India, instead of being of mixed race. McGowan went through the programme looking like a stunned mullet as he was introduced to a whole clan of Anglo-Indian McGowan cousins in an up-country railway town and eventually found out that his earliest McGowan ancestor in India was an Irishman who had enlisted in the East India Company army in the late 1700s and who married a Moslem landowner’s daughter. The Indian records go back to the earliest days of the British in India. So again, another channel to research the Irish diaspora. You never know, but you find out that you’re related to the Kumars at No. 42! :-} David Armstrong Maylands Western Australia From: Bonnie Anderson via Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 9:36 AM To: FER-GOLD Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLD Find My Past I decided to try this site while it was free. So far I have found the same information for Irish BMD's as I would find on familysearch.org - the same applies for English BMD's. Also I found transcriptions from David Elliott's Devenish Parish Registers. Perhaps someone could advise me the value of subscribing to this site. Bonnie Anderson --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Hi All Further to what David has mentioned, FMP has worldwide overseas births of the children of British soldiers. I found some births listed for children born to one of my soldiers in Fort Wellington, Ontario in 1820. Kathy Lowe -----Original Message----- From: DSA2003 via Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 8:56 PM To: DSA2003 ; fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Find My Past - The Irish in India? G’day again I’ve just another thought (dangerous isn’t it?). Many Irish enlisted in the East India Company armies as well as being in British Army units in India. FMP now has the Christian records for India on its site. Those of you who watched the “Who Do You Think You Are?” episode on the comedian Alistair McGowan, will know that he started out believing that he was of Scottish descent, with his father being an Anglo-Indian born in Calcutta. Until he got to Calcutta, he apparently thought that “Anglo-Indian” meant his father was a Briton born in India, instead of being of mixed race. McGowan went through the programme looking like a stunned mullet as he was introduced to a whole clan of Anglo-Indian McGowan cousins in an up-country railway town and eventually found out that his earliest McGowan ancestor in India was an Irishman who had enlisted in the East India Company army in the late 1700s and who married a Moslem landowner’s daughter. The Indian records go back to the earliest days of the British in India. So again, another channel to research the Irish diaspora. You never know, but you find out that you’re related to the Kumars at No. 42! :-} David Armstrong Maylands Western Australia From: Bonnie Anderson via Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 9:36 AM To: FER-GOLD Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLD Find My Past I decided to try this site while it was free. So far I have found the same information for Irish BMD's as I would find on familysearch.org - the same applies for English BMD's. Also I found transcriptions from David Elliott's Devenish Parish Registers. Perhaps someone could advise me the value of subscribing to this site. Bonnie Anderson --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ================================== https://www.google.ie/ ================================== http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message