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==Obtaining Copies copies of Recordsrecords== '''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 (2018) 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" The certified copies are transcriptions with data extracted from the ecclesiastical records. Because of the possibility of error with any transcription, for family history purposes copies of the microfilmed register pages are preferable. Copies can be obtained at no cost by using the microfilm digital copying machines in the reading room which scan to email or memory stick. Hard copies can be obtained cheaply from the microfilm copiers - also in the reading room. Note that sometimes 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/minister/priest for that church. [https://www.bl.uk/help/search-the-india-office-records-for-baptisms-marriages-and-burials Search the India Office records for Baptisms Marriages and Burials]. '''A great many of these images are now also available on the pay site [[Findmypast|findmypast]]''', which would be the most common option used by those who cannot personally visit the British Library. However for ecclesiastical records, where images are not available on findmypast Findmypast due to privacy considerations, unless you have a full record reference from elsewhere (check what is available in the indexed [[FamilySearch]] records) it is not possible to order a non-certified image in terms of

: '''Note''' some India Office records from the British Library, including all the ecclesiastical records, are available for free on [[FamilySearch]] digitised microfilms - refer [[FamilySearch]] for links to the FamilySearch Library catalogue and [[FamilySearch Centres]] for information about viewing digitised microfilms. However, for some researchers, [[FamilySearch Centres]] will not be geographically convenient. Most ecclesiastical records are also available as indexed records on FamilySearch.