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'''Note that some India Office Records will not be found in the findmypast database''', (for technical or other reasons) but may be found on [[IGI|FamilySearch]], as transcribed index records and microfilms. Examples are some/all of the records from Madras: Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (Oct 1815-May 1818) IOR/N/2/6 [[IGI|FamilySearch]] microfilm 506957 and Madras: Roman Catholic Returns of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (1838-1839) IOR/N/2/RC/1-2 [[IGI|FamilySearch]] microfilm 530008.
Note that names may be '''transcribed incorrectly''' which will affect the findmypast Search. If you cannot find a record you are looking for, cross check with records on Familysearch, or try a more general search on findmypast. See "11 tips for searching", External links below.
==Other records==
There are other findmypast datasets which contain, or may contain, records relating to India.
*findmypast category "Directories & social history/ Social history"
**British In India. Released 24 December 2015. Transcriptions and images from cards completed by Major Vernon Charles Padget Hodson (1883-1963), Lt. Col. Herbert Kendall Percy-Smith FSG (1897-1975) and others held at the [[Society of Genealogists]], "British in India documents female relatives of officers of the Bengal Army, Madras Army and Bombay Army, along with British civil servants, chaplains, merchants, plantation owners, labourers and British people in India after the East India Company period". Note: The Search facility does not pick up the majority of the female names, only the male names. Most of the female names are only revealed when looking at the male records.
*findmypast category "Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records"
**British Nationals Armed Forces Births, Marriages, Deaths. (3 datasets). For a description of these index records see [[Chaplains Returns]].
