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*[http://www.shimlamc.gov.in/page/Home.aspx Municipal Corporation Shimla]. Page 2 of this [http://www.shimlamc.gov.in/file.axd?file=2012%2f3%2fcitizen+charter+of+health+deptt.pdf pdf] includes a sample letter Subject: "Application for Birth & Death Certificate" with the address given: The Registrar, Birth & Death MC Shimla, The Mall Shimla H. P. India<br>
'''Previously Madras Presidency'''
*[http://www.chennaicorporation.gov.in/online-civic-services/birthanddeath.htm Chennai Corporation: Online facility for verification or printing of birth & death certificate] Applies from 1910, and you need to know the date of birth or death. This online service is free. You could try writing regarding earlier registration, (similar to the Shimla letter), to The Registrar, Birth and Death, Corporation of Chennai, Ripon Building, Chennai – 600003 India (charges may apply). This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2013-08/1376630690 post] advises the website is free to access and download. The records, which would have originally been handwritten, have been transcribed, so are subject to error, as described. Also the post advises most babies were just registered with the parents’ names and not the name of the child, so suggests just entering initially the date of birth. This additional India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2013-08/1376836639 post] advises the researcher "with a bit of ‘fudging’, ended up with new information".
*[https://www.ccmc.gov.in/ccmc/ Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation]
**[https://www.ccmc.gov.in/ccmc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=30 Public Health] , section "Birth & Death records custodian" states "...transfer the birth and death records to the Commissioner's office and the same is kept under the custody of Commissioner....previous year's records (ie 1871 to 2009) are stored at Corporation main office - Birth & Death record room." [https://www.ccmc.gov.in/ccmc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=43 Contact the Commissioner]<br>
'''Previously Bombay Presidency'''
*[http://www.mcgm.gov.in/The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai] The [http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/portal/anonymous/qlhealth# Health Department] is an administrative department of MCGM which is responsible for Birth/ Death registrations
====Death registration====
*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=File:Shimla_Register_of_deaths.jpg 2 pages from the Simla Death Register 1886 and 1887]. The registers are held at the Municipal Office in Shimla. For details of a visit made in 2013 see [https://web.archive.org/web/20131117103647/http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=166043 Shimla: Manual record-keeping that's eye-popping efficient] daijiworld.com
