Hello List I was recently sent an email which included the following link from the website of the Chennai Corporation called "Online facility for verification or printing of birth & death certificate". This relates to Madras birth and death registration from 1930 and you need to know the date of birth or death. http://www.chennaicorporation.gov.in/online-civic-services/birthanddeath.htm or http://tinyurl.com/6yxc2cr The Chennai (previously Madras) Corporation is one of the Municipal Corporations in India which hold civil birth and death registration records. Birth and death registration is described in the FIBIS Fibiwiki page of that name, and the above link has been included. http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Birth_and_death_registration or http://tinyurl.com/6yjrbqf If anyone has an ancestor who was born or died in Madras from 1930 onwards, where the date of birth/ death is already known, please let the List know if this website is helpful to you, and what information is to be found on the certificate. It's not clear to me whether there is a charge involved for a certificate. Cheers Maureen (Sydney)