Let's work out where your family's register may be held
You do not need to know the correct centre, or have every answer. Tell us what your family remembers about its village, district, community, caste or gotra, and we will use those clues to suggest the most likely register route.
The assessment is free, and signing in protects and saves your progress as you go.
How the free assessment works
Step 1
Create or sign in to your free account
This protects your answers and saves your progress, so you can stop and come back later.
Step 2
Tell us what your family remembers
Your ancestral village and district, community, caste, gotra, family names and traditions. Answer by typing or by recording your voice, whichever is easier — and it is fine to leave anything you don't know.
Step 3
We identify the likely register route
We use your answers to suggest the traditional family register centre, or centres, most likely to hold your family's records in India.
Step 4
You see the route and the price before paying
Once you have seen the suggested route and chosen the centres you want searched, we show you the price. You decide whether to go ahead.
Once you have paid, everything you have already told us — your answers, edits and recordings — carries straight into your case, so you never have to repeat yourself.
Finding the likely register centre for your family
Traditional family records in India — often called bahi registers — are kept by hereditary register keepers at pilgrimage centres such as Haridwar, Pehowa, Gaya, Kurukshetra, Trimbakeshwar and Chintpurni. Which centre holds a family's register usually depends on ancestral village and district, state, community, caste and gotra, and the family's pilgrimage tradition.
That is exactly what the free assessment asks about. See how the search works or read about the centres.