Names and lineage
The names of ancestors recorded in the panda's register — often spanning several generations.
For families researching their ancestry
Find and translate your family's records in India.
For families overseas who want to know who came before — we locate your family's traditional Haridwar register, transcribe the relevant pages and translate them into clear English. You receive a family tree, a timeline and a permanent digital archive.
What we recover
What's actually written in a family register.
A bahi entry is more than a list of names. The detail in the priest's hand can reveal lineage, native village, life events and the marks of ancestors who made the journey to Haridwar.
Native village and gotra
The ancestral village and family gotra written into the entry, useful for connecting to wider records.
Places of pilgrimage and rites
Notes of visits to Haridwar for last rites, immersions and other ceremonies.
Signatures and personal marks
Where present, signatures or marks left by ancestors at the time of their visit.
The process
Five stages, handled with care.
A typical Haridwar case takes between four and ten weeks, depending on what you can share with us and the condition of the relevant registers.
- 1
Order a package
Choose a Haridwar package and create your case from any country. You will receive a case reference number immediately.
- 2
Complete the family questionnaire
A save-and-return questionnaire captures the names, places, dates and oral history that help our researcher locate the correct register. You can also record audio of elders directly from your phone. If your case includes the register-update package, you can record births, deaths and marriages here too — they are saved into your case and reviewed alongside the rest of your answers when you submit.
- 3
Field research in Haridwar
Your assigned researcher meets the relevant panda families in person, requests the appropriate registers, photographs the entries and confirms the findings on the ground.
- 4
Transcription and translation
Trained translators manually transcribe each relevant page from the original script — often old Devanagari — and translate it into clear English. Every page is reviewed by our office.
- 5
Your secure digital family archive
You receive a final report, photographs of the entries, a translated family tree and any audio you contributed — all kept in your private case, to revisit, share and extend later.
Find and Translate My Family History
£395
One-time · GBP base price
- Location of the relevant panda family register in Haridwar
- Register photographs where permitted by the priest
- Manual transcription of the relevant pages
- English translation, reviewed in office
- Basic family tree and family timeline
- Heritage report and secure digital archive
Begin a search
If no register is located after the agreed Haridwar search, £150 is retained and £245 is refunded.
Had a recent life event?
Need to record a birth, death or marriage?
Our update service helps families overseas add a new entry to their Haridwar register, written by the hereditary priest in person.