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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==* [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=277 Births Outside India]* [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_class&id=241&s_id=0 Ministers and missionaries] * [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=964&s_id=0 Mixed Original Records] provided by Malcolm Speirs * [https://fibis.ourarchives.online/custom/death_cat_search.php 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://fibis.ourarchives.online/custom/marriage_cat_search.php 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://fibis.ourarchives.online/custom/birth_cat_search.php Births and Baptisms]** Baptisms Outside India ** Bengal Baptisms ** Bombay Baptisms ** Chandernagore Civil Birth Registration Index ** Madras Baptisms  Births Marriages and deaths announced in Newspapers and periodicals are also included in above generalised database categories. For more details and direct links to individual periodicals covered see see [[Domestic Occurrences]] == 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, and for later periods to the relevant Registrar-General of Births, Death and Marriages.<ref> A 1929 Marriage Register return from the RC Chaplain in Quetta, Baluchistan was sent to the Registrar-General of Births, Death and Marriages in Baluchistan and was then forwarded to the Secretary of State for India. See marriage record for [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=BL%2FBIND%2F005137750%2F00335&parentid=BL%2FBIND%2FM%2F139525%2F1 Arthur James Moore] Must be signed in to Findmypast to view. </ref> 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.

'''These The majority of these records are being have been digitised and should be are available online from late 2012 through the commercial site [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast]'''.coIf record is not found one should continue the search amongst the India Office records at the British Library.uk Also, be aware that the digital images are restricted for privacy purposes and a limited transcription only is available, currently (March 2021) as follows: '''There are no digital images for baptisms after 1921, nor for marriages after 1936''' .

Marriages conducted by the Registrar, which commenced in 1852, are included in the India Office ‘N’ series (N/11). A complete transcription of the indexes to these records is included in the [http://wwwfibis.search.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=102 FIBIS Search] section of this website.

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 commercial site [[British LibraryFindmypast]].

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

'Domestic Occurrences' was a section found in many periodical publications detailing birth, marriage and death announcements. It is easy to search these records in the digitized digitised versions of newspapers, journals and directories that are available online. FIBIS has a wealth of transcribed resources.

[[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 [httphttps://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/gettingstartedhelp-with-your-research/research-guides/lookingbirth-formarriage-death-sea-or-personabroad/bmdatseaorabroad.htm "Looking for records of a birth, marriage or death of a British national deaths 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 AmazonLondon Metropolitan Archives.co.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.==Change of name by deed poll==Notice of a change of name by deed poll may possibly appear in the various official ''Gazettes'' published in India, and in newspapers generally. As an example, a resident of Calicut and his wife changed their surname from Grosholz to Godfrey. [https://archive.org/details/gazette.stgeorge.TG1918.TG1918JUN11/page/n101/mode/1up ''Fort St. George Gazette'' 11 June 1918, page 948 (digital page 101)] Archive.org.

*This India List [http://archiver.rootswebwww.ancestryawin1.com/thawclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast]*[http:/read/indiawww.deedpoll.com/2004tracing-a-change-of-09/1096195847 postname.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 of ensuring continuity source 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.==References==<references/>