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'''Recent Changes 28 April 2010'''
<br>'''Family Search has placed new records on a temporary website, [http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/ fsbeta.FamilySearch.org] '''. On the home page, under the heading Discover Your Ancestors, select Collections and hopes to move them in the next few months to it’s main website [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp FamilySearch]. you will find:<br>[http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/collection/show?uri=http://10.243.93.207:8080/wcds/container/externalId/org.familysearch.easy.collection_id/1584960 '''India Births and Baptisms, 1786-c 1910'''] [http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/collection/show?uri=http://10.243.93.207:8080/wcds/container/externalId/org.familysearch.easy.collection_id/1584967 '''India Marriages, 1792-c 1935'''] [http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/collection/show?uri=http://10.243.93.207:8080/wcds/container/externalId/org.familysearch.easy.collection_id/1584968 '''India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948'''] The main website [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp FamilySearch]continues and in time the two sites will be merged.
Although the LDS website description of these new records states they are “digital copies of originals housed in various repositories throughout India”, it is believed that they are in fact based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] at the British Library. Please note that on an individual basis the LDS record does not show all the details available on the original. Also not every India Office church record is recorded in the LDS database. There appear to be no records shown for dates of birth after January-March 1910, or marriages after January-March 1935. Death records are available to 1948. Some of the records contain the description Race:White. This should be disregarded as it is a fabrication as the original IOR church records do not contain a classification for race at all. (The few records that do have a classifation for race use the terminology European not white).
