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*Search the archives main online databases, consisting of the India Listfree sites, and a commercial site. You may find that someone else has already researched the family tree you :There are interested inthree free websites: # [https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/index. Read how to do this, and more about the India List, in the Fibiwiki link php '''FIBIS database'''] contains information from many sources. # '''[[Mailing listsFamilySearch]] *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); and the British Library site, India Office Family History Search. The LDS site hosts a large volume of transcriptions based on To search the India Office [[Church records|church records]] you must "Sign In", located at the British Library, so you may wish to investigate this top right hand corner of the website first. '''Information about births - initial registration is available to 1910, marriages to 1935 and deaths to 1948'''required. (Alternative records are available for later births and marriages, see the link # [[IGIBritish Library]]), [http://indiafamily.bl.uk/ui/Home. The FIBIS database contains information from many sources, including (at July 2013) some births to aspx '''1930India Office Family History Search''']. The records found on the British Library website contain most of the information found on the original record, but are Contains only a small proportion of the total records. To access the links for these data bases, and for more information, read** [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php FIBIS database]. **Commercial sites: '''[[IGIfindmypast]]**[[Church records#Records at ''' is the British Library|Church main site for India related records- Records at the British Library]].  : '''The church India related records at the British Library available on Ancestry are mostly a duplicate of those to be digitised and should be available online during 2013 through found on the commercial free [[IGI|FamilySearch]] site findmypast.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.

: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, which 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 digitised microfilms, and previously issued microfilms, see [[FamilySearch]] and [[FamilySearch Centres]]. If FamilySearch Centres are not geographically convenient, copies of records may be requested from the British Library for a fee.*Search the archives of the Rootsweb 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 now discontinued India List, in the Fibiwiki link [[Mailing lists]]. *Consider joining your local genealogy society. Enquire about the facilities offered to members. Most as most large societies , in addition to other services, provide members free online access in their libraries to commercial sites such as FindMyPast Findmypast and /or Ancestry, and possibly many other additional genealogy websites which would otherwise require payment. This will become is especially relevant when as the church records at the British Library are now digitised and available through findmypast.co.ukFindmypast. Some Borough/Local Government and/or County/State and/or National libraries may also offer free access to websites such as FindMyPast Findmypast and Ancestry, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Some of the larger genealogy societies have become FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries where it is possible to view many, but not all, 'restricted' FamilySearch digitised records which are not available on home computers. For more details see [[FamilySearch Centres]]. Findmypast and Ancestry (and additional sites) are also available at [[FamilySearch Centres]].

*Browse the remaining categories on the [[Main Page]] ===Visiting the British Library=== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGZQlMGocPQ Advice For Your First Visit to the APAC Reading Rooms] - Advice from the Chairman of the Families In British India Society, Peter Bailey, on your first visit to the Asia Pacific and Africa Collection Reading Rooms at the British Library to research your family history in British India.2009 (youtube.com) == Related articles ==* [[British Library]]*[[findmypast]]* [[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]