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Beginners' Guide

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Recommended steps for your research
*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]]
*Search the main online data bases. There are three of these, free websites: 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, together with the commercial site findmypast.co.uk. The LDS site hosts a large volume of transcriptions based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] 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'''. (Information is restricted for privacy reasons. Alternative records are available for later births and marriages, see the link [[IGI]]). The FIBIS database contains information from many sources, including (at July 2013) some births to '''1930'''. The 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 for these data bases, and for more information, read
** [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php FIBIS database].
**[[IGI]]
**[[Church records#Records at the British Library|Church records- Records at the British Library]].
: '''The commercial site findmypast.co.uk has digital images from the India Office [[Church records|church records ]] at the British Library '''. The digital images are now digitised restricted for privacy purposes and are a limited transcription only is available online , currently through the commercial site findmypast.co.uk(January 2014) as follows: '''There are no digital images for baptisms after 1914, nor for marriages after 1929'''.  
*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.
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