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*Search the archives of the India List. You may find that someone else has already researched the family tree you are interested in. Read how to do this, and more about the India List, in the Fibiwiki link [[Mailing lists]] *Search the main online data basesdatabases. There are three of these, FIBIS; the IGI index on Family Search, the website of the LDS or Latter Day Saints Church (Mormons); and the British Library site, India Office Family History Search. The LDS has recently released a large volume of data based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] at the British Library, so you may wish to investigate this website first. Information about births is available to 1910, marriages to 1935 and deaths to 1948. The FIBIS database contains information from many sources. The records found on the British Library website contain most of the information found on the original record, but are only a small proportion of the total records. To access the links for these data bases, and for more information, readfree websites: ** # [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php FIBIS database]contains information from many sources. **# The [[IGI]]FamilySearch - which is the website of the Mormon Latter Day Saints Church (LDS) **# [[Church records#Records at the British Library|Church records- Records at the British Library]], [http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ India Office Family History Search]. Contains only a small proportion of the total records.

:'''This The commercial site [http://www.new.fibis.org/archives/194 FIBIS Blog[findmypast]] indicates that and the Familysearch web sites host a large volume of transcriptions based on the India Office [[Church records|church records ]] housed at the British Library . (Some more recent records are to be digitised and should be not available online from early 2012 through the commercial site for privacy reasons on [[findmypast]].coAlternative records are available for later births and marriages in the [[IGI]]).uk'''

*Search the archives of the India List. You may find that someone else has already researched the family tree you are interested in. Read how to do this, and more about the India List, in the Fibiwiki link [[Mailing lists]]. When you have some identifying details of a person such as name, date and place(presidency), you might wish to join the India List (see above) and send an email to the list, asking whether anyone has any knowledge of the family.

*Consider joining your local genealogy society. Enquire about the facilities offered to members. Most as most large societies provide members free online access in their libraries to commercial sites such as FindMyPast Findmypast and Ancestry. This will become is especially relevant when as the church records at the British Library are now digitised and available through findmypast.coSome libraries may also offer free access to websites such as Findmypast and Ancestry, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].uk

*Browse the remaining categories on the [[Main Page]] ===Visiting the British Library=== {{#widget:YouTube|id=UGZQlMGocPQ}}== Related articles ==* [[British Library]]* [[IGI]]* [[Birth, marriage and death records]]* [[Church records]]* [[Miscellaneous tips]]== External links ==*[http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast]*[http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ India Office Family History Search]*[https://familysearch.org/ Familysearch]