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{{short description|Indian scientist and genealogist}}
{{for|the Indian businessman and politician|Michael Lobo (politician)}}
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{{Infobox writer 
| name = Michael Lobo
| image = Michael Lobo.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|9|12|df=y}}
|nationality= Indian
| birth_place = [[Mangalore]], India
| occupation = Writer, historian
| genre = [[Genealogy]]
| website =
}}

'''Michael Lobo''' (born 12 September 1953) is an Indian scientist, writer, and [[genealogy|genealogist]].<ref>{{harvnb|Lasrado|2005|loc=|Ref=prabhu}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Monteiro|loc=|Ref=mon}}</ref> He is the author of three self-published books on the Catholic community in [[Mangalore]], India.<ref name="lobo">{{harvnb|Lasrado|loc=|Ref=lobo}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Michael Lobo was born in [[Mangalore]], [[India]] to Maisie Lobo (''née'' Fernandes) and Camillo Lobo, both of [[Mangalorean Catholic]] descent. He belongs to the [[Bejai]] branch of the Lobo-Prabhu clan, that has its roots in the Makhale suburb of [[Kulshekar]], Mangalore.<ref name="lobo" /> Lobo's father was a British army soldier who served during [[World War II]].<ref name="lobo" /> He studied at [[Montfort School, Yercaud|Montfort High School]] in [[Yercaud]], Tamil Nadu, and graduated from [[St. Aloysius College (Mangalore)|St. Aloysius College]].<ref name="lobo" /> In 1975, he was one of the "National-A" level [[chess]] players in the country, which put him among India's top 20 chess players.<ref name="Shet">{{harvnb|Saldanha-Shet|2011|loc=|Ref=shet}}</ref> In 1982, he obtained a PhD from [[Indian Institute of Science|IISc]] Bangalore, with a degree in [[Applied Mathematics]]. His doctoral thesis on [[Aerodynamics|Transonic Aerodynamics]] earned him the "Young Scientist Award" from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA).<ref name="Shet" /> In 1982, he earned a PhD in [[aerodynamics]] mathematics from the [[Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore]], receiving the 1983 Young Scientist Award from [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="lobo" />

==Career==

===Academics (1984–1993)===
In 1984, Lobo moved to England where he entered the [[Cranfield Institute of Technology]] on a Commonwealth Scholarship, eventually becoming a faculty member. While employed there, Lobo authored papers on [[Computational Fluid Dynamics]] (CFD), including ''Time Marching – A Step-by-step Guide to a Flow Solver'' (Ashgate Press, 1997). In his spare time he compiled a 1000-page dictionary of English words derived from [[Classical Greek]] and wrote a book on the origins of popular [[Rock and Roll|Rock'n'roll]] songs, but neither was published. He returned to Mangalore in 1993, because of "personal crises".<ref name="lobo" /><ref name="Shet" />

===Genealogy (from 1994 onwards)===
Lobo's interest in genealogy began in 1992, upon his discovery of an antique baptismal register belonging to the period 1810–80 at Milagres Church. While browsing through this register, he discovered the birth record of his great-grandfather, Anthony Peter Lobo. The record traced his parentage to Lawrence Lobo (a ''[[District Munsiff Court|Munsiff]]'' and eminent member of the 19th century Mangalorean Catholic community) and Ignatia Tellis. He then subsequently scoured the register to locate the birth records of the other children of Lawrence and Ignatia.<ref name="Tonse" />

This register became the nucleus of his first genealogical project—a biographical compilation of all the descendants of Lawrence Lobo (through both male and female lines of descent). From late 1992 to late 1993, Lobo began working during his spare time on this project, and by the end of 1993, had completed the first draft of his genealogical work on the Lobo-Prabhus of Makhale and their related families.<ref name="Tonse" /> After the end of his contract at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, rather than renew his contract or pursue a contract elsewhere, Lobo decided to give up his mathematical career and pursue a personal project to write the history and genealogy of the Mangalorean Catholic families.<ref name="Tonse" />

He moved to [[Mangalore]] in 1994, and settled down in his family manor "Camelot Residency" on Bijai church road.<ref name="Shet" /> During 1994–95, Lobo was involved, on a full-time basis, on a research project on the history and genealogy of the Catholic community of Mangalore. He copied almost every 19th century baptismal, marriage and death record he could locate at Rosario Cathedral and Milagres Church, cataloguing them according to surnames.<ref name="Tonse" /> Lobo initially experienced difficulties in the project since only the baptismal registers were maintained in reasonably good condition, while large sections of the marriage and death registers were missing, and it was not feasible to build the genealogy of any family on the basis of baptismal records alone.<ref name="Tonse" />

However, he had access to other sources of information on the major families, such as the Vas-Naiks of Falnir (the first published work on the genealogy of a Mangalorean Catholic family), Mascarenhas-Prabhus of Falnir, and the Fernandes-Prabhus of [[Tonse]].<ref name="Tonse" /> There were also unpublished genealogies of various other families, most of them written by Mangalorean genealogists Rao Saheb Francis Xavier Lobo and Marian Saldanha.<ref name="Tonse" /> The project took shape as ''A Genealogical Encyclopaedia of Mangalorean Catholic Families.''<ref name="Shet" /> Lobo also conducted and still conducts personal interviews with many Mangalorean Catholics, who have settled in [[Bangalore]], [[Mumbai]], [[Chennai]], [[Delhi]] and various other parts of [[India]] and abroad.<ref name="Tonse">{{harvnb|Shetty|2010|loc=p. 8|Ref=Tonse}}</ref> This work is expected to be about 8 to 10 volumes and as of March 2011, had already crossed 7000 pages.<ref name="Shet" />

Although his work is unfinished, Lobo has self-published three offshoots on the subject: ''Mangaloreans Worldwide – An International Directory'' (1999), ''Distinguished Mangalorean Catholics 1800–2000 – A Historico-Biographical Survey of the Mangalorean Catholic Community'' (2000), and ''The Mangalorean Catholic Community – A Professional History / Directory'' (2002). His encyclopaedia covers more than a thousand families and is being continually updated with names and records of new families.<ref name="lobo" /> He claims that the Mangalorean Catholic community has the distinction of being the only community in the world to possess its own genealogical encyclopaedia.<ref name="lobo" />

Lobo has also authored two books on music entitled ''A Hundred Pages of Classics, Opera and Popular Instrumental Pieces – A Thousand Pages of Songs with Historical Notes'' and its companion edition ''Popular Music – A Historical and Thematic Analysis'', both of which were released in 2011.<ref>{{harvnb|Team Mangalorean|2011|loc=|Ref=songs}}</ref>

==Works==
*{{Cite book |title=Time Marching – A Step-by-step Guide to a Flow Solver |publisher=Ashgate Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-291-39826-0 }}
*{{Cite book |title=Mangaloreans world-wide: an international directory of the Mangalorean Catholic community |publisher=Camelot Publishers |year=1999 |isbn=978-81-87609-00-1}}
*{{Cite book |title=Distinguished Mangalorean Catholics 1800–2000 – A Historico-Biographical Survey of the Mangalorean Catholic Community |publisher=Camelot Publishers |year=2000 |isbn=978-81-87609-01-8}}
*{{Cite book |last=Lobo |first=Michael |title=The Mangalorean Catholic Community – A Professional History / Directory |year=2002 |isbn=978-81-87609-02-5}}
*{{Cite book |title=A Hundred Pages of Classics, Opera and Popular Instrumental Pieces – A Thousand Pages of Songs with Historical Notes |year=2011}}
*{{Cite book |title=Popular Music – A Historical and Thematic Analysis |year=2011 |isbn=978-81-87609-08-7}}

==Citations==
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==References==
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*{{Cite journal |last=Lasrado |first=Richie |date=13 October 2005 |title=Digging the Family Roots from Mangalore |url=http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/exclusive_arch.asp?ex_id=156 |url-status=dead |publisher=[[Daiji World|Daijiworld Media Pvt Ltd Mangalore]] |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/65RggA0PP?url=http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/exclusive_arch.asp?ex_id=156 |archive-date=14 February 2012 |access-date=20 October 2008 |ref=prabhu}}.
*{{Cite journal |last=Lasrado |first=Richie |title=Dr. Michael Lobo: Probing family roots and history |url=http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/achievers_view.asp?a_id=10 |url-status=dead |publisher=[[Daiji World|Daijiworld Media Pvt Ltd Mangalore]] |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/65RgwUcXm?url=http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/achievers_view.asp?a_id=10 |archive-date=14 February 2012 |access-date=20 October 2008 |ref=lobo}}.
*{{Cite journal |last=Monteiro |first=John B. |title=Brits in Quest of Mangalorean Roots |url=http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/exclusive_arch.asp?ex_id=1008 |url-status=dead |publisher=[[Daiji World|Daijiworld Media Pvt Ltd Mangalore]] |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/65Rh30DKr?url=http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/exclusive_arch.asp?ex_id=1008 |archive-date=14 February 2012 |access-date=20 October 2008 |ref=mon}}.
*{{Cite news |last=Saldanha-Shet |first=I. J. |date=18 March 2011 |title=Dr. Michael Lobo – Konkani Genealogist |work=Mangalore Today |url=http://mangaloretoday.com/mt/index.php?action=profile&type=29&cat=0 |url-status=bot: unknown |access-date=23 March 2011 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmangaloretoday.com%2Fmt%2Findex.php%3Faction%3Dprofile%26type%3D29%26cat%3D0&date=2012-02-14 |archive-date=14 February 2012 |ref=shet}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Shetty |first=Venkatesh |date=25 August 2010 |title=Vamshala Berugalu: (Etihasa thajna Vamshada berugalannu kandu hidiyuva thajna) Dr. Michael Lobo jatha sandarshana |publisher=Udupi Wartha Pathrike |ref=Tonse}}. {{in lang|kn}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Team Mangalorean |title=Mangalore: Dr Michael Lobo's Books on Popular Music Released |url=http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=285405 |url-status=bot: unknown |publisher=Mangalorean.com |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mangalorean.com%2Fnews.php%3Fnewstype%3Dbroadcast%26broadcastid%3D285405&date=2012-04-28 |archive-date=28 April 2012 |access-date=28 April 2012 |ref=songs}}.
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