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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>. 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. 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, where it occurs, 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. [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/stp/copy/stpcopyprices/rrcopyprices.html Reading Room Copy Service prices]'''These images are now also available on the pay site [[Findmypast|findmypast]]'''

==ReferencesDigitised books available on Google Books==<References/>Some books from the British Library's collection have been digitised and are available on Google Books, and may be located through Google Books's usual search. It is not possible however, to specifically locate books from the British Library through the Google Books search. This may be done through the British Library's main catalogue search, refers below, by typing googlebooks (Note: must be one word) in addition to your search keywords. From the results displayed, click on "I want this" and the Google Books link will be shown.