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LDS Microfilms of Church registers in India

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India
'''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.
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| Roman||Tamil Nadu||Chingleput||Acharapakkam||St. Joseph||2048988||7 - 9||1900-1972*||1953-1968||||
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|Protestant||Gujarat ||Gujarat || Ahmedabad and region||Diocese of Gujarat, CNI (multiple churches) ||multiple||||||||||[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4092149 Catalogue entry]. Note: records are available as images. Only limited records in English, likely to be dependent on date.
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| Syrian||Kerala||Kottayam||Aikarachira||St. George||1989866||18 - 24||1900-1973||1929-1983||1930-1961||
*Wesleyan Mission/Chapel, St. Thomas Mount, Madras
*Wesleyan-Methodist Chapels at Poonamallee, Virugambaukam, and surrounding villages in the County of Sydapet ([[Saidapet]]), District of Chingleput, [Madras]
:Many of the records do not have a church specified. [https://csimadrasdiocese.org/aboutus.php CSI Diocese of Madras], an "area comprising the city of Madras, Nellore, Chinglepet, North and South Arcot and the Tamil speaking areas of Chitoor district".:'''Note: some records are now available as images in the India collection of records on FamilySearch in the collection [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2174941 India, Madras Diocese Protestant Church Records, 1743-1990]'''. Also see [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1123389 FamilySearch catalogue entry for these records].</ref>||multiple||||||||||[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1123389?availability=Family%20History%20Library catalogue Catalogue entry]. '''Note: some records are now available as images'''.
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| Roman||Tamil Nadu||Madras||Madras||O.L. of Light (Luz)||2048980||7||1808-1971||||||
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