LDS Microfilms for Church Records outside of the usual Presidencies

This is a list of the microfilms available for the parish register transcripts of various European churches outside of the usual three Presidencies. They were filmed by the LDS (Mormon) genealogical society and are available for viewing by any person at an LDS Family History Centre. The original records are at the British Library in London. For church records of the three Presidencies, see the webpages on Bengal Presidency, Bombay Presidency and Madras Presidency.

This is not an official page of the LDS church. For information on how to use these microfilms to find your ancestors, please refer to the article on Using LDS Microfilms.

Native States of India

These records are from the India Office Records at the British Library and are included in the digitized records available on the commercial site findmypast. However, be aware the digital images are restricted for privacy purposes and a limited transcription only is available, currently for the more recent records

The Native States of Jammu, Kashmir, Madras, Shellong, Bhopal, Hyderabad-Deccan, Bhopal, Mysore, Rajputana, Assam, Maratha etc. cover the present-day states of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab in India and Pakistan, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka and other states.

Content	Years	Film number
Index to births and deaths	1923-1950	0498603
Baptisms and deaths	1889-1950	0527422
Baptisms and deaths	1889-1950	0527423

Catholic Church Records in India

These records are from the India Office Records at the British Library and are included in the digitized records available on the commercial site findmypast

Microfilm of transcripts of baptisms, marriages, and burials from Catholic churches in the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay.

The presidencies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay cover nearly all the present-day India, Bangladesh and parts of Pakistan.

Content	Years	Film number
Indexes for Bengal, Madras, Bombay	.	0527435
Bengal bapts., marrs., burials v. 1	1835-1839	0527437
Bengal bapts., marrs., burials v. 2	1845-1847	0527438
Bengal bapts., marrs., burials v. 3	1848-1850	0527439
Bengal bapts., marrs., burials v. 4	1851-1853	0462985
Bengal bapts., marrs., burials v. 5	1854-1856	0528360
Madras bapts., marrs., burials v. 1-2	1835-1839	0530008
Madras baptisms (retakes)	1833-1840	0530009
Madras burials v. 3	1838-1839	-
Madras baptisms v. 4	1840-1843	-
Madras bapts., marrs., burials v. 5-6	1840-1843	0530010
Madras burials v. 6	1840-1843	-
Madras bapts., marrs., burials v. 7	1844-1845	0530011
Madras bapts., marrs., burials v. 8	1852-1854	-
Bombay bapts., marrs., burials v. 1	1842-1844	0528361
Bombay bapts., marrs., burials v. 2	1845-1847	0466712
Bombay bapts., marrs., burials v. 3	1848-1850	0535702
Bombay bapts., marrs., burials v. 4-5	1851-1854	0535703

Church Records after Independence

These records are from the Indian Office Records at the British Library and are probably included in the records available on the commercial site FindMyPast. As however, images are restarted for privacy reasons, only limited transcriptions would be available for baptisms and marriages.

Microfilm of transcripts of births, baptisms, marriages, and burials from European churches in India and Pakistan. The dates are dates of registration of the event which may have happened years earlier.

Index to births, marriages, deaths 1949-1965 ---------------- 0498602

Births, marriages, deaths v.1-2 1949-1967 ---------------- 0527415

Births, marriages, deaths v. 3 1949-1967 ---------------- 0527416

Births, marriages, deaths v. 4 1949-1967 ---------------- 0527417

Births, marriages, deaths v. 5 1949-1967 ---------------- 0527418

Births, marriages, deaths v. 6 1949-1967 ---------------- 0527419

Births, marriages, deaths v. 7 1949-1967 ---------------- 0527420

Births, marriages, deaths v. 8 1949-1967 ---------------- 0527421

Madras Ecclesiastical Returns - Omissions and Corrections 1777-1884

These records are from the Indian Office Records at the British Library and are included in the digitized records available on the commercial site FindMyPast

From 1885 to 1890 a check was made of the original ecclesiastical registers of baptisms, marriages and burials with the records at the office in Madras. This record gives the omissions and corrections.

It appears that currently (November 2011) these records are not included in the database on the LDS FamilySearch website,, so to view these records, it will be necessary to look at either the original records at the British Library, or to view the microfilms.

The information is arranged by towns.

The Presidency of Madras mainly included the present-day states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

In the index to baptisms, marriages and burials, the volumes are sometimes designated like this :

or

The letter 'O' represents Ommissions and the figure is the volume number. Similarly, the letter 'C' represents Corrections. The figure is the volume of Corrections.

Index of omissions 1777-1884 ------------------------ 0530012

Omissions, baptisms towns A-Y v.1-2 1777-1884 ---------- 0463319

Omissions, marriages " A-Y v. 3 "

Omissions, burials " A-T v. 4 "

Omissions, burials, towns T-Y v. 5 1777-1884 ---------- 0530007

Omissions, mixed, miscell. v. 6 1893-1913

Corrections, baptisms towns A-Ma 1777-1884 ---------------- 0526962

Corrections, baptisms towns Ma-Y " ---------------------- 0463317

Corrections, marriages " A-Ma "

Corrections, marriages towns Ma-Y " ---------------------- 0526963

Corrections, burials " A-Ma "

Corrections, burials towns Ma-Y " ---------------------- 0463318

This India List thread is about the Madras Corrections films.