Changes

<br>'''Family Search placed new records on a new website [https://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch]'''. First click on Search To access the India and Ceylon records from this site, then scroll down the page to “Browse by location” and select “Asia and Middle East”. However, India related records baptisms, marriages and burials can be researched more directly at [https://www.familysearch.org/ssearch/collection/list#page=1&region=ASIA_MIDDLE_EAST '''Asia and Middle East Records''']. From this link '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-1990''' are also available with images online. Note, this web page takes some time to load. This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-02/1297851646 post] gives some hints for browsing these [[Ceylon]] images. Another series of images, (added March 2013), accessible from the same link is [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/India,_Gujarat_Diocese_Church_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records) '''India, Gujarat Diocese Protestant Church Records, 1854-2012'''] Some of the records are in the Hindi and Gujarati languages, but there are some records in English, as evidenced by one of the [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/File:India,_Gujarat_Diocese_Church_Records_DGS_7251285_3_Baptism.jpg sample records] shown. To confuse matters, the (small) number of records for "other" areas in Asia such as [[Macao]], [[Singapore]], [[Bencoolen]] etc available on the Family Search website now are not found in the Asia category, but in the "All Record Collections" “All Published Collections” category , in a group of records called "World Miscellaneous " and may be accessed through the following links: [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1783956 World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms], [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1809045 World Miscellaneous Marriages], [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1809046 World Miscellaneous Deaths and Burials]

The LDS website previously described description of the records is as "Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records" for births and baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials. The current description is "Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City". They in fact appear to be based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] at the British Library , including the N/5 [[Princely states|Indian States]] records.<ref>India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-10/1286947107 post 13 October 2010]</ref> However, it appears that the records from the [[LDS Microfilms for Church Records outside of the usual Presidencies#Madras Ecclesiastical Returns - Omissions and Corrections 1777-1884|Madras Ecclesiastical Returns - Omissions and Corrections 1777-1884]] are '''not''' included.<ref>Email to User:Maureene dated 20 July 2011 indicates two brothers, Joseph Thorpe, 18, who died 23 Dec 1853 and was buried in the "Old Cemetery" at Guntoor, Hyderabad Residency and George Benjamin Thorpe, 23, who died 29 Jun 1858 at Jaulnah , who appear in the Omissions Film for Madras Burial (“film B265”) are '''not''' included in the Family Search data.</ref> 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. Some individual entries are known to have been '''omitted''', probably due to error.<ref>