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*Search the archives of the India Listmain online databases. You may find that someone else has already researched the family tree you There are interested inthree free websites: # [http://www.search.fibis.org/ FIBIS database] contains information from many sources. Read how to do this, and more about # The [[IGI]] FamilySearch - which is the India List, in website of the Fibiwiki link Mormon Latter Day Saints Church (LDS) # [[Mailing listsBritish Library]], [http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ India Office Family History Search]. Contains only a small proportion of the total records.

*Search the main online data bases. There are three of these, FIBIS; the IGI index on Family Search - which is the website of the Mormon Latter Day Saints Church (LDS); The commercial site [[findmypast]] and the British Library site, India Office Family History Search. The LDS site hosts Familysearch web sites host a large volume of transcriptions based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] housed 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'''. (Alternative Some more recent records are not available for later births and marriages, see the link privacy reasons on [[IGIfindmypast]]). The FIBIS database contains information from many sources, including (at April 2013) some births to '''1926'''. The Alternative 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 available for these data bases, later births and for more information, read** [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php FIBIS database]. **marriages in the [[IGI]]**[[Church records#Records at the British Library|Church records- Records at the British Library]]).

: '''The church records at *Search the archives of the India List. You may find that someone else has already researched the British Library family tree you are interested in. Read how to be digitised do this, and should be available online during 2013 through more about the commercial site findmypastIndia List, in the Fibiwiki link [[Mailing lists]].co.uk'''. *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.co.uk. Some libraries may also offer free access to websites such as FindMyPast Findmypast and Ancestry, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].

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