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There are currently two A new Family Search siteswebsite was introduced in April 2010, and for a period of time there were two websites in existence, the new and the old. There is now only the one website, with the exception of the Library Catalogue which we will call "Family Search" still exists in two versions, or the new website and "Previous version Family Search", or Pv Family Searchthe old.
'''Previous version Family Search'''<br> You can view the Indian data online using the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp Advanced Search] on the LDS’s [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp Previous version Family Search] website. Select country "India" (or Singapore etc) You can also search using the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true IGI Search]. The data is almost, but not quite as extensive. Select region “Asia”. Then select country “India” or "All countries" for a wider area including countries such as Singapore, Malaysia etc. There is a facility to add batch numbers, see below. The Pv Family Search website also includes a [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start Record Search Pilot], which is a pilot project to access online images of data. Currently (June 2010) it contains the data mentioned in the following paragraph, but this may change in the future. ''' Changes intoduced introduced 28 April 2010'''<br>'''Family Search has placed new records on a new website, (which is still "under construction") [https://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch]'''. 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 more directly at [https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/list#page=1®ion=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. 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" 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 original website [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp Previous version FamilySearch] continues and in time the two sites will be merged into the new site.
In addition, the Previous version Family Search website contains the The LDS [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp '''old version Library Catalogue'''] is still in existence for all the LDS microfilms, as does and there is also a catalogue available on the new site. Currently June 2010July 2012, the catalogue on the new website has some problems, and it is better recommended you continue to use the original website for the old version Library Catalogue. <br> [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.
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The Indian section of the IGI deals almost exclusively with Europeans and Anglo-Indians (Eurasians). In 1994, there were about 240,000 names for India. If you have a more up-to-date count, then please update this page.
The LDS website description of the records is "Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records" for births and baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials. 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>
In addition, '''for privacy reasons there appear to be no records shown for dates of birth after January-March 1910, or marriages after January-March 1935'''. (For alternative records, refer below). 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).
You can view all online data at [[Family History Centres|FamilySearch Centres]] (previously known as Family History Centres) (FHC) if you do not otherwise have online access. You may need to book a computer at the FHC.
