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<br>First click on Search/Records. To access the India and Ceylon records, then click on the map for “Asia and Middle East” and select either India, or Sri Lanka. Click on "Start researching in India".This will bring you to a Search facility which searches all the searchable databases for India (a handy new feature available from c October 2014). The direct link is [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927063 '''India''']. If you want to search a particular database (for baptisms, marriages or burials), click on "view all collections". India related baptisms, marriages and burials can also be researched by using the at left side filter [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&region=ASIA_MIDDLE_EAST '''Asia and Middle East Records''']. The searchable India records are '''transcriptions''', are described as index records and do not contain images.

From the Asia and Middle East records, The [https://www.familysearch.org/learnsearch/wikicollection/enlocation/Sri_Lanka,_Colombo_District_Dutch_Reformed_Church_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records)1927054?region=Sri%20Lanka Sri Lanka page] contains the database '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-1990'''(Alternative [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1780708 catalogue entry] are also available with ). '''Indexes''' and images online, but are not searchable and further click though to a FamilySearch Wiki page about these records. Note, the images may take some time to load. Hints for browsing these [[Ceylon]] images.<ref>Loulie Genealogy. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/1316106/ LDS - Asia & Middle East - Sri Lanka/Colombo] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 16 February 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2018.</ref> Another <br>A series of images only (not searchable)(added March 2013), accessible from the same link India page is [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/India,_Gujarat_Diocese_Protestant_Church_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records) '''India, Gujarat Diocese Protestant Church Records, 1854-2012'''] Some of the records are in the Hindi and Gujarati languages, but there are some records in English, as evidenced by one of the [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/File:India,_Gujarat_Diocese_Church_Records_DGS_7251285_3_Baptism.jpg sample records] shown. <br>A further set of images only (not searchable) was added May 2015, [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/India,_Madras_Diocese_Protestant_Church_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records) '''India, Madras Diocese Protestant Church Records, 1743-1990'''], baptisms, marriages and burials from the Church of South India, Madras Diocese. These are the type of records known as [[Church records#Bishops' Transcripts|Bishop's Transcripts]], copies sent by parishes to the Diocesan Office. Hints for browsing these records.<ref>Cheryl. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/113724/ Baptism records - Madras Presidency] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 11 November 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2018.</ref> '''Note''':The category date range allocated by FamilySeach for these latter records may be very unreliable. As an example for [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-37715-183-8?cc=2174941&wc=3NH8-16F:1584404203 Marriages: 1872 Jul-1877 Jun], page 1 shows some marriages from 1843, and the majority of the records on the first four pages are either earlier or later than the dates specified. (The images for Madras Diocese Protestant Church Records appear to be extracted from, or perhaps may be the complete set, of eighteen microfilms, [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1123389?availability=Family%20History%20Library catalogue entry]).