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Beginners' Guide

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The very first steps
*Search the archives of the India List. You may find that someone else has already researched the family tree you are interested in. Read how to do this, and more about the India List, in the Fibiwiki link [[Mailing lists]]
*Search the main online data bases. There are three of these, FIBIS; the IGI index on Family Search, the website of the LDS or Latter Day Saints Church (Mormons); and the British Library site, India Office Family History Search. Depending The LDS has recently released a large volume of data based on the dates India Office [[Church records|church records]] at the British Library, so you are interested inmay wish to investigate this website first. Information about births is available to 1910, one site may provide more and marriages to 1935. The FIBIS database contains information than anotherfrom many sources. Unfortunately there is not The records found on the British Library website contain most of the information found on the original record, but are only a lot small proportion of information available for the 1900’stotal records. To access the links for these data bases, and for more information, read
** [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php FIBIS database].
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