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# The '''[[IGI]]''' FamilySearch - which is the website of the Mormon Latter Day Saints Church (LDS)
# [[British Library]], [http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ '''India Office Family History Search''']. Contains only a small proportion of the total records.
:Commercial sites: '''[[findmypast]]''' is the main site for India related records. The records available on Ancestry are mainly mostly a duplicate of those to be found on the free [[IGI|FamilySearch ]] site.
:The commercial site [[findmypast]] and the free [[IGI|Familysearch]] web sites site 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 not available for privacy reasons on [[findmypast]]. Alternative records are available for later births and marriages in the [[IGI]]). :'''Note''': Only [[findmypast]] contains images of the records, which generally contain '''additional''' information to the transcriptions, such as occupational details, witnesses to marriages etc.
:Some later records for baptisms and marriages are not available with full details for privacy reasons on [[findmypast]]. For those unable to visit the British Library, alternative records are available for later births and marriages on FamilySearch microfilms, see [[IGI]].
*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 and send an email to the list, asking whether anyone has any knowledge of the family.
