Discover the family history already written in India.
For centuries, hereditary priests of Haridwar have kept handwritten registers of the families who travelled to the Ganga. We locate those registers, transcribe and translate them, and return them to your family as a permanent digital archive.
A modern bridge to an ancient record.
India Family Archives is a global research service for Indian families and descendants living outside India. We work directly with the hereditary priests of Haridwar — the panda families — to surface the entries that belong to your ancestors.
Four pillars of the Haridwar service
Each case is handled by a researcher on the ground in Haridwar, supervised by our office, and reviewed before delivery.
Locate
We identify the panda family holding your lineage's register and confirm coverage before any deeper work begins.
Retrieve
Photographed pages of the relevant entries — names, dates, places, and the signatures of those who came before.
Translate
Manual transcription from old Devanagari and regional scripts, then a careful translation into English.
Preserve
A final report and a secure digital family archive you can return to, update, and pass on.
From the first detail you remember,
to a record you can pass down.
A typical Haridwar case takes 4–10 weeks, depending on how much information you can share and the condition of the relevant registers.
- 01
Order a package
Choose a Haridwar package and create your case.
- 02
Complete the family questionnaire
Save-and-return; record audio of elders if helpful.
- 03
Field research in Haridwar
Our researcher consults the relevant panda families.
- 04
Transcription & translation
Manual work by trained translators, reviewed in our office.
- 05
Your secure digital family archive
Final report, photographed pages, family tree, audio.
Indian families and descendants, anywhere in the world.
Whether your family left India one generation ago or four, the registers may still hold the names you are looking for. Our customers come to us from across North America, the United Kingdom, the Gulf, East Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
- NRIs & PIOs
Confirming ancestral village, gotra and lineage details for personal records or citizenship applications.
- Descendants of indentured migration
Tracing the family back from the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, Suriname, South Africa and elsewhere.
- Families across India
Bringing scattered branches back into a single, shared family record.
- Researchers & institutions
Working with us on case-by-case heritage and academic projects.