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If your ancestors were baptised, married or buried in a European church in British India, then the [[church records]] should have been transcribed and you can access these records at the [[British Library]] in London, or at [[LDS]] [[Family History Centres]]. The FIBIS database contains many transcribed BMD records.
If your ancestors were married in a [[Registrar marriages|Registry Office]], then these records will be included with the church record indexes. FIBIS volunteers have transcribed the Registry Office index and this is on the [httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=4&s_id=102 FIBIS database]. Further details with images of regsitry pages ca be found on the subscription website [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast]. Details of Registry Office marriages are not available on microfilm through the [[LDS]].
Some records of the births of Jewish people were included in the [[church records]] for the Bombay Presidency. It would seem that Jewish parents submitted a letter from their Rabbi or other figure of authority certifying that the individual was born on a certain day at a certain place. These letters were then included with the regular church records. Later, this 'registration' could then be used as proof of British citizenship. This does not seem to have been a very widespread practice. However, if you are at a loss to find a record of your ancestor, it may be worth examining the indexes to the [[church records]] of the Presidency in which they resided.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461583 ''The Origin And History Of The Calcutta Jews''] by I S Abraham, 1963. Archive.org
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