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==Searching tips==
*Tip 1 <ref> These tips originally appeared on the FIBIS Facebook page</ref>
:Wish you could fill in the parents names and have a list of search results showing all their children? Unfortunately you can't do that, but you can do something else that will produce similar results.
:1. Enter the surname only
:Looking for a surname beginning with O ? Quite a few seem to have been data entered as O' . We have come across OLIVER entered as O 'LVER and OGLE as O'LE etc.
*Tip 4
:Take the location given in a search result with a pinch of salt. Quite a few index entries give the wrong location for the event. This seems to be down to the transcriber misunderstanding the location written at the top of the page. For instance, some events at Chunar are indexed as Benares, because the original record notes 'Baptisms at Chunar within the district of Benares'. We have found other entries indexed as being at Calcutta, when it really was within the archdeaconry/diocese of Calcutta and some Dehra Dun records indexed as Benares. That is a minor inconvenience as some locations are close, but a reminder to check the wider area.<ref> These tips originally appeared on *Tip 5:Know someone is definitely baptised, married or buried somewhere, but can't find it when searching? :Put an * in first name field ( don't check the variant option):Put an * in surname field ( don't check the variant option ):Now fill in a place name eg Vepery in the FIBIS Facebook page</ref>place field :Run search:You will get all the baptisms, marriages or burial's that show the event occurring in Vepery.
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