Wf58 Indenture Access Map

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# WF58 — Indo-Mauritian Indenture Index Access Map (2026-06-10) Lines worked: **SÉMIDAR** (Lorenza Sémidar × Arthur Lablanche, paternal-paternal) and **MAHAMOODALLY** (Islam Mahamoodally × Jeannette Mary Collinson, maternal). Both are Indian-origin (Muslim/indentured) lines → targets are Mauritius indenture databases. ## Which indexes are OPEN vs GATED for MAURITIUS | Index | URL | Open name search? | Covers MAURITIUS indenture? | Verdict | |---|---|---|---|---| | **III** (Indian Indenture Institute) | theiii.in | Yes (Fabrik form) | **NO** — destination-colony dropdown = Fiji / South Africa / Suriname only. Detail page `/search/details/13/238` = South Africa (Truro 1860). Blurb *claims* Mauritius but it is NOT in the searchable corpus. | OPEN but **not Mauritius** | | **tamizhconnect** preview API | tamizhconnect.com/api/indenture/preview-search?q=NAME&provider=III&fuzzy=1 | Yes (JSON, no login) | **NO** — valid providers = `III`, `GLDC`, `GIRMITIYA_MADRAS` only. `provider=MGI` and `provider=MAU` → **HTTP 400** (invalid). No Mauritius provider exists. | OPEN but **not Mauritius**. III=SA, GLDC=Guyana, GIRMITIYA_MADRAS=Fiji-Madras | | tamizhconnect "Mauritius search" page | tamizhconnect.com/records/mauritius-indenture-immigrant-number-ship-search | "Free record search" advertised — but "Search is private, we don't publish names"; document verification is **PAID**. | Marketing funnel; the only live corpus behind it is III (SA/Fiji/Guyana). | **Funnel, not an open MU index** | | **MGI Indian Immigration Archives** | mgirti.ac.mu/.../indian-immigration-archives | **NO online search** | YES — the authoritative ~454,000 immigrants 1842–1910, 2,055 registers (UNESCO MoW 2015) | **GATED** — request by email/post/in-person; **requires you to already know immigrant name + number** (the chicken-and-egg gate). Tel (230) 403 2037, Moka. | | **CGMR / genealogie.mu** (ExpoActes) | genealogie.mu | partial; global search needs free login | état-civil (birth/death/marriage) — **NOT indenture**; for Indian origins it *refers you to MGI* | civil-status only | | **AMA** (amamu.org/actes ExpoActes) | amamu.org/actes/ | normally OPEN surname search | civil-status acts | **UNREACHABLE this session** — ECONNREFUSED / 401 from the fetcher (server-side block or down). Retry later via real browser UA. | | **Coolitude** genealogy | coolitude.shca.ed.ac.uk/genealogy | no own DB | resource guide only; points to MGI / genealogie.mu / Aapravasi Ghat | guide, no index | | **Mauritian Family Origins Project** | origins.omeka.net | Yes (Omeka keyword search, no login) | 12 contributed family histories + SLAFNET; **no immigrant-number index** | OPEN but tiny; **Mahamoodally=0, Semidar=0** | | **Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund** | aapravasi.govmu.org | "developing documentation centre" | no online searchable name list found | no open index | | **UNESCO MoW** dataset | media.unesco.org/.../mauritius_indentured_labourers_en.pdf | — | registers are **NOT digitised/searchable online**; held at MGI | confirms no open digital index | | **data.govmu.org / Kaggle / GitHub** | — | — | no open indenture-immigrant dataset found | none | | **gazettes.africa / MauritiusLII** | gazettes.africa/gazettes/mu | full-text (via Google; site search 403s fetcher) | MODERN gazettes only (naturalisation / change-of-name) — **not indenture era** | useful for living bearers, not immigrant numbers | ## BOTTOM LINE There is **NO open, online, name-searchable Mauritius indenture immigrant-number index.** The only authoritative route (MGI, 454k records) is offline and gated behind already knowing the immigrant number. The open III/tamizhconnect corpus is South Africa / Fiji / Guyana — a genuine, controlled **negative for Mauritius**, not a hit.