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:'''Note''': The set of records which comprises the searchable India records are now also available on [[findmypast]], as searchable records with images.
From the Asia and Middle East records, [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Sri_Lanka,_Colombo_District_Dutch_Reformed_Church_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records)'''Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-1990'''] are also available with images online, but are not searchable. Note, the images may take some time to load. An India List post gives some hints Hints for browsing these [[Ceylon]] images.<ref>India List post Loulie Genealogy. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia@rootsweb.com/2011-02thread/1316106/1297851646 "LDS - Asia & Middle East - Sri Lanka/Colombo"] dated ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 16 February 2011 . Retrieved 3 September 2018.</ref> Another series of images only (not searchable)(added March 2013), accessible from the same link is [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/India,_Gujarat_Diocese_Protestant_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. A further set of images only (not searchable) was added May 2015, [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/India,_Madras_Diocese_Protestant_Church_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records) '''India, Madras Diocese Protestant Church Records, 1743-1990'''], baptisms, marriages and burials from the Church of South India, Madras Diocese. These are the type of records known as [[Church records#Bishops' Transcripts|Bishop's Transcripts]], copies sent by parishes to the Diocesan Office. Hints for browsing these records.<ref>Cheryl. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia@rootsweb.com/2016-11thread/113724/1478862721 Baptism records - Madras Presidency] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 11 November 2016. Retrieved 11 November 20163 September 2018.</ref> '''Note''':The category date range allocated by FamilySeach for these latter records may be very unreliable. As an example for [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-37715-183-8?cc=2174941&wc=3NH8-16F:1584404203 Marriages: 1872 Jul-1877 Jun], page 1 shows some marriages from 1843, and the majority of the records on the first four pages are either earlier or later than the dates specified. (The images for Madras Diocese Protestant Church Records appear to be extracted from, or perhaps may be the complete set, of eighteen microfilms, [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1123389?availability=Family%20History%20Library catalogue entry]).
'''Further images''' may be located through the catalogue Search, refer below.
To confuse matters, the (small) number of transcribed records for "other" areas in Asia such as [[Macao]], [[Singapore]], [[Bencoolen]] etc available on the FamilySearch website now are not found in the Asia category, but in the “All Published Collections” category, subcategory "Other", in a group of records called "World Miscellaneous" and may be accessed through the following links:''' [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1783956 World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms], [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1809045 World Miscellaneous Marriages], [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1809046 World Miscellaneous Deaths and Burials]'''. Included in this group are records from [[St. Helena]], [[China]] and a small number from [[Indonesia]], [[Iran]], previously Persia, and a few records from India and Bangladesh.<ref>[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/World_Miscellaneous_Births_and_Baptisms,_Coverage_Table_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records) World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms, Coverage Table (FamilySearch Historical Records)] FamilySearch Wiki. Retrieved 19 September 2014</ref>
The LDS website previously described the transcribed records for India 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 Clark, Noel. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2010-10thread/1662558/1286947107 post Notation against burial index record] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 13 October 2010]. Retrieved 3 September 2018.</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>India List Murphy, Sylvia. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia@rootsweb.com/2010-04thread/1663076/1272583754 post dated India bdm on FamilySearch] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 30 April 2010]. Retrieved 3 September 2018.</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).
