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When a microfilm has been digitised it is also, in addition to the microfilm number, allocated a '''DGS''' number, referred to as a Digital Folder number. The latter number appears to becoming the main reference number for a record set.
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'''Note: Microfilm ordering services ceased 8 September 2017. Some microfilms have already been digitised, and are available online through the [https://familysearch.org/catalog/search Catalogue Search] on FamilySearch, not in the Records section, and are indicated by a camera icon. All microfilms are expected to be digitizeddigitised by the end of 2021, and although most will be available online, by 2020some may have viewing restrictions, see [[FamilySearch Centres]]. Please take this into account when reading the information below.''' In London, the [[Society of Genealogists]] is believed to hold some of these microfilmswhich some people find quicker to use than the digitised records. When a microfilm has been digitised it is also, in addition to the microfilm number, allocated a '''DGS''' number, referred to as a Digital Folder number. The latter number appears to becoming the main reference number for a record set. (The URL for a record set has the format (at 2021/04) https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008099542 where the last 7 numbers are the DGS number. The DGS number is found through the Catalogue Search by entering the relevant microfilm number.)
==India==
There are many churches in India which are not covered by the [[APAC]] holdings. The [[LDS]] Church is currently microfilming the records of these parishes. They have kindly provided me with a list of film numbers of the parishes (including the dates of the records) that they have microfilmed to date (April 2001) and I have put them here in a 'user-friendly' form for the genealogist. The towns concerned are listed alphabetically.
