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If you require a copy of a baptism, marriage or death record which you have found on the FamilySearch website,the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, USA provides a photocopy service. The procedure is set out in the FamilySearch Wiki article [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Photoduplication_Services Photoduplication Services]. This [https://familysearch.org/blog/en/policy-change-patrons-requesting-photocopies-family-history-library-salt-lake-city-utah blog] provides details of the changes in procedure in early 2013. This service is now free if the information is not generally available for circulation to Family History Centres and has to be emailed to you. (A charge applies for photocopies posted in the mail). The comments under the blog advise the service is limited to 5 requests a person per month and the timeframe for one researcher was four weeks. Note however, it is possible the page you order may not include the name of the church, if the records for the church extend over several pages as the name of the church usually appears either at the beginning, or possibly at the end of the records, included in the words of certification by the chaplain/minuster/priest for the particular church.
The microfilm number and page number must be supplied. If you have found an index record in respect of an India BMD on the FamilySearch website, there will be a microfilm number quoted. Sometimes there is a volume and page number quoted, but generally there is not. Where there is no page number quoted on the FamilySearch record, <nowiki>support@familysearch.org</nowiki> have advised to copy all the information that is quoted on the index record and to attach this to the photocopy application. The Library should be able to locate the image information with this information.<ref> CaseID:2034861 and India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-03/1299539424 post dated 8 March 2011]</ref> This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2013-06/1371239597 post dated 14 June 2013] explains the work involved, and asks that '''all''' available information be forwarded with your request. To assist the volunteers, using the [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=generalfilmsearch&columns=*,0,0 film number catalogue search], find out the title of the microfilm from which you require a record, which you should advise. Also advise that
*generally in each yearly volume of the India records there are four quarterly returns, and which quarter you expect your record to be in (from the date of the event from the index record); and if the microfilm contains more than one volume of records, which volume you expect your record to be in;
*that there are separate returns for baptisms, marriages and burials (when the microfilm contains more than one type of records) and which category your record is;
