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→Ecclesiastical Records (‘N’ Series in the India Office Records)
The [[East India Company]] established and paid for Anglican dioceses and parishes in all areas as they came under its control. Each parish priest was required to establish registers in which to record BMDs. In addition, he had to send duplicates to the presidency ecclesiastical authorities. These latter have been collated and sent to London and they are now in the care of the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]] in their Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections Reading Room ([[APAC]]). Microfilmed copies of these records are available for public inspection and indexes are available on the open shelves of the [[APAC]], broken down by Presidency, Alphabetically and by Year.
These indexes and records are available on microfilm at [[LDS]] [[Family History Centres]]. Many of the indexes have been transcribed by FIBIS Volunteers and are available in the [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php FIBIS Search] section of this web-site-under the heading Browse Records, click on Ecclesiastical Records, and then either Deaths, Marriages or Baptisms to see which records have been transcribed, to ensure you don't needlessly seach elsewhere for the same records. Note also that some films have been transcribed by LDS. To read how LDS batch numbers can help you search ,and to help you to cut down needlessly searching elsewhere, refer to [[India Office Ecclesiastical Returns Microfilm Numbers and the LDS equivalent]]
