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This page contains instructions on how to use the LDS (Mormon) records to find Family History in India. It is not an official page of the LDS church and the author is not a Mormon. To find your nearest LDS Family History Centre (FHC), look up your telephone directory under Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Or ask a fellow genealogist - they'll know! To find your nearest FHC at the official LDS website go to FHC Locator. If you want to know more about what a Family History Centre is, then visit the page About Family History Centres.
==Background==
British India was divided into three Presidencies : *Bombay, which covered the west and north of the country, including what is now Pakistan; *Bengal, which covered the east of the country and included Burma and what is now Bangladesh; and *Madras, which covered the southern portion of India. The main cities of the Presidencies were Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, respectively. The first British church in India was St Mary's in [[Fort St George]], [[Madras]], which was consecrated in 1680. Many other churches were established after that date and records exist for most of them from the time of their consecration. Every year on Lady Day (25th March), British churches were required to send copies of their ecclesiastical records to the capital city of each Presidency. The Presidencies then indexed the records and sent them to the India Office in London (now the Oriental and India Office Collection of the [[British Library]], or the [[OIOC]]). The Mormons have microfilmed all the ecclesiastical records, including the indices, and made them available to Mormons and non-Mormons alike.
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