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The LDS website previously described the transcribed records for India as "Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records" for births and baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials. The current description is "Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City". They in fact appear to be based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] at the British Library , including the N/5 [[Princely states|Indian States]] records.<ref>Clark, Noel. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/1662558/ Notation against burial index record] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 13 October 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2018.</ref> However, it appears that the records from the [[LDS Microfilms for Church Records outside of the usual Presidencies#Madras Ecclesiastical Returns - Omissions and Corrections 1777-1884|Madras Ecclesiastical Returns - Omissions and Corrections 1777-1884]] are '''not''' included.<ref>Email to User:Maureene dated 20 July 2011 indicates two brothers, Joseph Thorpe, 18, who died 23 Dec 1853 and was buried in the "Old Cemetery" at Guntoor, Hyderabad Residency and George Benjamin Thorpe, 23, who died 29 Jun 1858 at Jaulnah , who appear in the Omissions Film for Madras Burial (“film B265”) are '''not''' included in the Family Search data.</ref> 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. Some individual entries are known to have been '''omitted''', probably due to error.<ref>
Murphy, Sylvia. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/1663076/ India bdm on FamilySearch] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 30 April 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2018.</ref>
In addition, '''for privacy reasons there appear to be no records shown for dates of birth after January-March 1910, or marriages after January-March 1935'''. (These dates are those applying in April 2010 when the database was introduced and have remained unchanged. Findmypast will generally have later information, which may be full, or limited.). For alternative records, refer below). 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).
If you are searching for a name which could have various spellings, you can search using a single letter replaced by a wildcard question mark '''?''', or the multiple character wildcard asterisk ''' *''' <ref> [https://familysearch.org/blog/en/searching-wildcards-familysearch-2/ Searching with Wildcards in FamilySearch] FamilySearch Blog</ref>
