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Although the The LDS website description of these new the records states they are “digital copies of originals housed in various repositories throughout India”is "Index to selected India" births and baptisms, marriages, it is believed that they are in fact deaths and burials. They appear to be based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] at the British Library. Please note that on an individual basis the LDS record does not show all the details available on the original. Also not every India Office church record is recorded in the LDS database. There appear to be no records shown for dates of birth after January-March 1910, or marriages after January-March 1935. Death records are available to 1948. Some of the records contain the description Race:White. This should be disregarded as it is a fabrication as the original IOR church records do not contain a classification for race at all. (The few records that do have a classifation for race use the terminology European not white).
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'''Recent Changes 28 April 2010'''
<br>'''Family Search has placed new records on a beta ("under construction") website, [http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/ fsbeta.FamilySearch.org]'''. To access the India and Ceylon records from this site, scroll down the page to “Browse by location” and select “Asia and Middle East”. However, India related records can be researched directly on the pilot site at [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails&c=fs%3A1584960 '''India Births and Baptisms, 1786-c 1910'''] [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails&c=fs%3A1584967 '''India Marriages, 1792-c 1935'''] [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails&c=fs%3A1584968 '''India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948''']
[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=waypoint&s=waypointsOnly&c=fs%3A1780708&w=0 '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-1990'''] are available with images online on the pilot search site, and also on the beta site. Note, the web page takes some time to load. (Added Available from August 2010)
The original website [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp FamilySearch] continues and in time the two sites will be merged into the new site.
In addition, the Family Search website contains the LDS [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Library Catalogue] for all the LDS microfilms, as does the new beta site. Currently June 2010, the catalogue on the beta website has some problems, and it is better to use the original website for the Library Catalogue. [http://www.londonfhc.org/ London Family History Centre] has a film catalogue for the [http://www.londonfhc.org/content/catalogue?p=Indian+Subcontinent Indian Subcontinent] and for [http://www.londonfhc.org/content/catalogue?c=221&p=Indian+Subcontinent,India India] in a different format to the main catalogue, classified by geographical region.
*[[LDS Microfilms of Church registers in India]]
A list of microfilm numbers of registers from churches throughout India, except the Portuguese colony of Goa. These are records which are not covered by the APAC holdings. The majority are Roman Catholic churches but also included are records from the Church of Scotland in Bombayand Madras, together with some Syrian and Armenian churches and a few miscellaneous entries.
*[[Goa Church Records]]
