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=== Locating Church Records === | === Locating Church Records === | ||
To find an ancestor in church records, it helps to | To find an ancestor in church records, it helps to 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 ([http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=LDS_Microfilms_of_Church_registers_in_India direct link to a list of LDS Microfilms of Church registers in India]). They can be found by using the Place Search for [https://familysearch.org/catalog-search India - Church Records]. | 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 ([http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=LDS_Microfilms_of_Church_registers_in_India direct link to a list of LDS Microfilms of Church registers in India]). They can be found by using the Place Search for [https://familysearch.org/catalog-search India - Church Records]. | ||
=== Records in the Family History Library === | === Records in the Family History Library === | ||