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*Search the archives main online databases, consisting of free sites, and a commercial site. :There are three free websites: # [http://www.search.fibis.org/ '''FIBIS database'''] contains information from many sources. # The '''[[IGI]]''' FamilySearch - which is the website of the Mormon Latter Day Saints Church (LDS) # [[British Library]], [http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ '''India ListOffice Family History Search''']. You may find that someone else has already researched Contains only a small proportion of the total records.:Commercial sites: '''[[findmypast]]''' is the family tree you main site for India related records. The records available on Ancestry are interested inmostly a duplicate of those to be found on the free [[IGI|FamilySearch]] site. Read how to do this,  :The commercial site [[findmypast]] and more about the free [[IGI|Familysearch]] web site host a large volume of transcriptions based on the India List, in Office [[Church records|church records]] housed at the Fibiwiki link British Library.:'''Note''': Only [[Mailing listsfindmypast]]contains images of the records, which generally contain '''additional''' information to the transcriptions, such as occupational details, which may be very helpful for your research.

*Search :Some later records for baptisms and marriages are not available with full details for privacy reasons on [[findmypast]]. For those unable to visit the main online data bases. There British Library, alternative records are three of theseavailable for later births and marriages on FamilySearch microfilms, FIBIS; the see [[IGI index on Family ]]. *Search, the website archives of the LDS or Latter Day Saints Church (Mormons); and the British Library site, India Office Family History SearchList. Depending on You may find that someone else has already researched the dates family tree you are interested in, one site may provide more information than another. Unfortunately there is not a lot of information available for the 1900’s. To access the links for these data basesRead how to do this, and for more informationabout the India List, read** [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php FIBIS database]. **in the Fibiwiki link [[IGIMailing lists]]**[[Church records#Records at . 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 British Library|Church records- Records at list, asking whether anyone has any knowledge of the British Library]]family.

*When you have some identifying details of a person such Consider joining your local genealogy society as namemost large societies, date and place(presidency) in addition to other services, you might wish provide members free online access in their libraries to join commercial sites such as findmypast and Ancestry. This is especially relevant as the India List (see above) church records at the British Library are now digitised and send an email available through findmypast. Some libraries may also offer free access to the listwebsites such as findmypast and Ancestry, asking whether anyone has any knowledge of the familysee [[Miscellaneous tips]].

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