India Church Records: Difference between revisions

To find an ancestor in church records, it helps to should know his religion and the parish where he lived. The Imperial Gazetteer may help you find the parish. See the "[[India Gazetteers|Gazetteers]]" section of this Wiki for information about the gazetteer and for other help in finding a parish.

More than 200,000 transcriptions of indexes to church records are available on [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php FIBIS Families in British India Society] and [http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ India Office Family History Search]. All of the church record transcriptions and indexes have been microfilmed and are available on microfilm at the Family History Library. They can be found by using the Place Search for [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=topicdetails&subject=431655&subject_disp=India+-+Church+records&columns=*,0,0 India - Church Records].<br>

=== Useful Web Sites ===

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/next_steps/researchplaces_03.shtml

 

http://www.tanap.net/content/archives/archives.cfm?ArticleID=208

 

http://www.aigs.org.au/britind.htm

 

http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/NativeGuide/Fguide-intro-IN.html

 

http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/collections/collection.php?ID=256

 

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Church_of_India