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* Certified copies of ecclesiastical records, with the seal of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, acceptable for official purposes, can be ordered from the British Library -current cost (2012) is £18 each. These contain details from the ecclesiastical registers held in the British Library which are "contemporary copies of registers of baptisms, marriages and burials sent to London for the information of the East India Company and the India Office"<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/ecclesiastical/eccrecords.html British Library Ecclesiastical Records]</ref>. However, for most family historians The certified copies of these microfilmed register pages will suffice, or are preferable, and these can be obtained cheaply transcriptions with data extracted from the microfilm copiers in the reading roomecclesiastical records. Both the microfilmed entry and the certified copy should contain the same biographical information but the former will not be acceptable for official purposesErrors have been known to occur. This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-03/1330688795 post] advises that a certified copy of a baptism did not contain the name of the church. :Because of the possibility of error, and the fact that some of the data may not have been included in the certified copy, for family history purposes copies of the microfilmed register pages are preferable. These can be obtained cheaply from the microfilm copiers in the reading room. These images will also soon be available on the pay site Find My Past. Note that the name of the church may be on a different page to the record you require. The records for a church may extend over several pages and the name of the church usually appears either at the beginning, or possibly at the end of these records, included in the words of certification by the chaplain/minuster/priest for that church.