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:There are three free websites:
# [http://www.search.fibis.org/ '''FIBIS database'''] contains information from many sources.
# The '''[[IGIFamilySearch]]''' 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 mostly a duplicate of those to be found on the free [[IGI|FamilySearch]] site.
:The commercial site [[findmypast]] and the free [[IGI|Familysearch]] web site host a large volume of transcriptions based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] housed at the British Library.
:'''Note''': Only [[findmypast]] contains images of the records, which generally contain '''additional''' information to the transcriptions, such as occupational details, witnesses to marriages etcwhich may be very helpful for your research.
: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]].
