News
2 May 2012
The directories for 1915 and 1925 are now fully indexed and available in our member's area. 1905 will follow shortly in a fully readable and searchable form.
We now have our own copies of the Maulmain Chronicle Volumes 1-7 (i.e. the first seven years of the newspaper from April 1837 to April 1844) and indexing is under way as I write. Interesting articles will be transcribed in full and we also hope to provide full transcriptions of all important (genealogical) items such as BMDs, arrivals and departures, lost dogs and reports from European civilians in Rangoon and Mandalay during what must have been decidedly difficult times. We know that the period will be too early for some of you, but for others this is the stuff of dreams. It is also nice if you just like reading old newspapers.
We now have our own copies of the Maulmain Chronicle Volumes 1-7 (i.e. the first seven years of the newspaper from April 1837 to April 1844) and indexing is under way as I write. Interesting articles will be transcribed in full and we also hope to provide full transcriptions of all important (genealogical) items such as BMDs, arrivals and departures, lost dogs and reports from European civilians in Rangoon and Mandalay during what must have been decidedly difficult times. We know that the period will be too early for some of you, but for others this is the stuff of dreams. It is also nice if you just like reading old newspapers.
7 Feb 2012
Maymyo RC Registers (Europeans) now fully transcribed. St John's Cantonment Rangoon (RC) registers partially complete. Marriages to 1930 including witnesses and occupations are complete.
Corrected indexes and photographs of tombstones referred to on FIBIS for locations in Moulmein and Thayetmyo. In addition we provide a full photographic record of the Syriam cemetery and a small cemetery at Yamethin. We have additional photographs, corrections and data which supplement existing records for Maymyo Cemetery and a complete photographic record of the monuments collected at the new Christian Cemetery at Yeway, plus pages of monuments from elsewhere in Rangoon.
As of late December we have assumed responsibility for the completion of the new edition of BACSA's Register of European Burials in Burma. This project has been sadly delayed owing to the illness and subsequent loss of Sally Hofmann. We aim to complete this task by the end of the year. Exact details of information which will be shared between our organisations have not yet been finalised, but an announcement will be made in due course.
One of the British Library "Lists of Employees" for the Burma Railways (1915) has been indexed and a dedicated Railways page has been started, where the extracted lists from Directories will be collected, along with ancillary material such as photographs and articles.
1905 Thackers Directory indexed images in progress.
All of the above exclusively in our members' area.
Maymyo RC Registers (Europeans) now fully transcribed. St John's Cantonment Rangoon (RC) registers partially complete. Marriages to 1930 including witnesses and occupations are complete.
Corrected indexes and photographs of tombstones referred to on FIBIS for locations in Moulmein and Thayetmyo. In addition we provide a full photographic record of the Syriam cemetery and a small cemetery at Yamethin. We have additional photographs, corrections and data which supplement existing records for Maymyo Cemetery and a complete photographic record of the monuments collected at the new Christian Cemetery at Yeway, plus pages of monuments from elsewhere in Rangoon.
As of late December we have assumed responsibility for the completion of the new edition of BACSA's Register of European Burials in Burma. This project has been sadly delayed owing to the illness and subsequent loss of Sally Hofmann. We aim to complete this task by the end of the year. Exact details of information which will be shared between our organisations have not yet been finalised, but an announcement will be made in due course.
One of the British Library "Lists of Employees" for the Burma Railways (1915) has been indexed and a dedicated Railways page has been started, where the extracted lists from Directories will be collected, along with ancillary material such as photographs and articles.
1905 Thackers Directory indexed images in progress.
All of the above exclusively in our members' area.
