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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 [[APAC]] at the [[British Library]]). The Mormons have microfilmed all the ecclesiastical records, including the indices, and made them available to Mormons and non-Mormons alike.

A large number of The British Library India Office records are now digitised and available online as images on the [[findmypast]] website. A large number are also available online on the LDS website FamilySearch as index records. Refer (See[[IGI]] for details). (In addition, these records are expected to become available online as images on the pay site FindMyPast in 2013.) However, it appears not all the British Library India Office records are listed on the LDS website. In particular, there appear to be no records shown for dates of birth within the last one hundred years from 2010, or marriages within the last seventy five years from 2010. (Records have not been updated since 2010). Currently there is no list of those India Office records which are included online on the LDS website. Accordingly you may wish to search the British Library India Office records. Note however the records sent to England declined in number from the early 1930s with minimal numbers sent to England in the 1940s.