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Consider also that * a person may have been baptised with a certain Christian name, but been known by a completely different name, either for their whole life, or for various periods. * a second marriage may be bigamous, or * the birth mother may not be correctly stated in a baptismal record, .* a person who had been widowed may be described as indicated by this India List [http:a Bachelor//archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-08/1283070071 post]. Spinster on a 2nd marriage record

== Ecclesiastical FIBIS resources==* [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=277 Births Outside India]* [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=241 Ministers and missionaries] * [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=964&s_id=0 Mixed Original Records] provided by Malcolm Speirs * [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=3 Deaths and burials]** Bengal burial records ** Bombay burial records ** Burials Outside India ** Chandernagore Civil Death Registration Index ** Madras burial records (‘N’ Series in the * [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=1 Marriages]** Bengal Marriages ** Bombay Marriages ** Chandernagore Civil Marriage Index ** Madras Marriages ** Marriages outside India ** Registry Office Records) Marriage Indexes ** St Helena Banns of Marriage * [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=2 Baptisms]** Baptisms Outside India ** Bengal Baptisms ** Bombay Baptisms ** Chandernagore Civil Birth Registration Index ** Madras Baptisms * [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=103 Births, Marriages and deaths announced in Newspapers and periodicals] == Ecclesiastical records ==

The [[East India Company]] established and paid for Anglican dioceses and parishes in all areas as they came under its control. Each chaplain/parish priest minister was required to establish registers in which to record BMDs. In addition, he had to send duplicates to the presidency ecclesiastical authorities. The latter have been collated and sent to London and are now in the care of the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]] in their Asian & African Studies Reading Room. Ministers, priests and missionaries who were not employed by the East India Company were not obliged to send these returns, however some did so on a voluntary basis but these records are available to a lesser extent.

'''This The majority of these records have been digitised and are available online through the commercial site [http://www.newawin1.fibiscom/awclick.org/archives/194 FIBIS Blogphp?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] indicates '''. If record is not found one should continue the search amongst the India Office records at the British Library. Also, be aware that the records digital images are to be digitised restricted for privacy purposes and should be a limited transcription only is available online from early 2012 through the commercial site findmypast.co.uk, currently (January 2020) as follows: '''There are no digital images for baptisms after 1919, nor for marriages after 1934'''.

Unfortunately, The Registrar Marriages records are included in the LDS have not filmed these digitised records so they may only be viewed at available on the [[British Library]].commercial site findmypast

==Records on the LDS Family Seach Search website==

[[The National Archives]] hold some records that may be useful in tracing a BMD outside of the United Kingdom. For more help see TNA’s brief guide [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/gettingstarted/looking-for-person/bmdatseaorabroad.htm "Looking for records of a birth, marriage or death of a British national at sea or abroad"] or the books ''Tracing Your Ancestors in The National Archives'' by Amanda Bevan (7th edn, National Archives Kew, 2006), including chapter 8, "Births, marriages and deaths of Britons overseas or in the armed services" and ''The British Overseas, A Guide to Records of Their Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials Available in the United Kingdom'' by Geoffrey Yeo (London, 3rd edition 1995). Both are available at  There is reference in the [[British Library]]. ''Tracing your Ancestors'' is available from main article to some other sources of overseas records such as the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1903365899 FIBIS Shop] through Amazon.coLondon Metropolitan Archives.uk

Some birth and death registration did occur in British India. It commenced in the 1860s but was only compulsory in some areas, with other places adopting voluntary registration. The records are obtained from Local Municipalitieslocal Municipal Corporations, therefore researchers must know where a birth occurred. Some people born in India pre 1947 have copies of their birth registration. Presumably these were Recent copies are known to have been obtained some time ago from the Shimla Municipal Corporation following a visit there, and but it is not known whether these documents could be obtained currentlyare generally available, or how far back existing records go. 

*This India List [http://archiver.rootswebwww.ancestryawin1.com/thawclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast]*[http:/read/indiawww.deedpoll.com/2004tracing-a-09/1096195847 postchange-of-name.htm Tracing a Change of Name by Deed Poll in the UK] deedpoll.com . Some records are available at [[The National Archives]] . It is about often the case that a proof of name change of surnameeither never existed or no longer does.*This India List [httphttps://archiverwww.rootswebgov.ancestry.comuk/th/read/INDIA/2011search-local-02/1298276748 postarchives Locate a local Archives] discusses 'assuming England and Wales only. gov.uk. If a name' person has returned which was or immigrated to the UK, a local Archive may be a way source of ensuring continuity of a family name when it would otherwise have died out local newspapers for lack of a direct male descendantfuneral or other information, local electoral registers etc. (Some electoral registers are available online on Ancestry, [[findmypast]] etc).*[http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/marrlic.htm Marriage Licence Records (Allegations and Bonds) at Guildhall Library] This is a brief introduction to searching for records relating to the issue of marriage licences, with particular reference to those concerning the City of London and former county of Middlesex. Licences were issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops, and the records are called Marriage Allegations or Bishops’ Marriage Allegations.These records have been transferred to the London Metropolitan Archives and are now available online on the pay website Ancestry.:'''Update''' July 2017. findmypast has added a database of transcribed indexes called "London Marriage Licences 1521-1869" which is taken from the book of the same name, published 1887 available on [https://archive.org/details/londonmarriageli00fost Archive.org]*[http://www.archives.com/blog/genealogy-help/second-cousins-and-removed-cousins-difference.html Second Cousins and Removed Cousins: What's the Difference] by Amy Johnson Crow October 16, 2013 www.archives.com*[http://www.dglenn.org/defs/daysymbols.html Symbols For Days Of The Week]. dglenn.org. These symbols are sometimes seen in baptismal, marriage and burial entries, generally in older church records to c 1700. {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}