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[[Genealogy book|Genealogy registers]], of families, maintained by [[Brahmin]] [[Pandits]] locally called as ‘Pandas’, who double up as professional [[genealogy|genealogists]], at [[Haridwar]], has been a subject of study for many years now.<ref name=bha>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OsI7Hy8H34YC&pg=RA1-PA151&lpg=RA1-PA151&dq=Hindu+genealogy+registers+at+Haridwar&source=web&ots=ihYBQhUcK7&sig=Uj_vt0bcEjfEMqm80cKzJki45bU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result Brahman pandas] ''Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement'', by Lise McKean, University of Chicago Press, 1996. {{ISBN|0-226-56010-4}}. Page 151.</ref><ref name=janam>[http://www.globalsikhstudies.net/pdf/janamsakhi.pdf Janasakhi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324124627/http://www.globalsikhstudies.net/pdf/janamsakhi.pdf |date=24 March 2012 }} [[Janamsakhis]] of ''Miharban'' and ''Mani Singh'', Janamsakhi Tradition, Dr. Kirpal Singh, 2004, Punjabi University, Patiala. {{ISBN|81-7205-311-8}}. www.globalsikhstudies.net.''page 169''.</ref> In several cases, these voluminous records called as ''Vahis'' (Bahi), have also been used in settling legal cases regarding inheritance or property disputes, as these records are held sacrosanct both by the pilgrims and the Pandas themselves,<ref name=bha/> and in many places these records trace [[family history]], for over twenty prior generations, stretching across many centuries.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1985/05/13/1985_05_13_051_TNY_CARDS_000341255 | first=Alex | last=Shoumatoff | title=The mountain of names | work=[[The New Yorker]] | date=13 May 1985 | page=51 | access-date=21 March 2018}}</ref>

As Haridwar has traditionally{{cn|date=February 2021}} been a site, for [[Death customs|death rites]] and also [[Shraaddha]], amongst [[Hindu]]s, it soon also became customary for the family pandits to record each visit of the family, along with their [[gotra]], family tree, marriages and members present etc., grouped according to family and home town. And over the centuries, these registers became an important genealogical source for many families, part of splintered families, in tracing their [[family tree]] and [[family history]] as well, especially after the [[Partition of India]] in 1947, and later amongst the Indian [[diaspora]].<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/travel/1998/apr/09kumbh1.htm The Greatest Mela on Earth, the Kumbh at Haridwar] ''[[Rediff.com]]'', "Tiny temples, hardly larger than phone booths, dot every 100 metres of the ''ghats''. As do the umbrella-shaded stalls, standing on stilts, of the ''pandas'', who apart from conducting religious ceremonies can track down the genealogy of Hindu families from their centuries-old, long, yellowing registers. Little ceremonies -- blessing of coconuts, offering of flowers, money and sweets, lighting of the oil lamps -- take place along every inch of the ghats and probably have for aeons. ''Pandas'', alms seekers, pandits and hawkers are posted every few yards ready to shake out a few coins or notes from every newcomer they spot. Can I trace your family tree or offer you advice?"</ref>{{Failed verification|date=February 2021}}<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/past-stories/meera-syal.shtml Who Do You Think You Are?] ''[[BBC]]'', "[[Meera Syal|Meera]]'s parents both originate from the farmlands of the Punjab, in north-west India. Her father, Surendra Syal, hails from a small village called Lasara. In India it is difficult to trace your ancestry through documents like birth certificates, in the way that you can in the United Kingdom, but instead Indian family records are kept at shrines in the country's many holy cities. It is in the ancient city of Haridwar, on the riverbanks of the Ganges, that a Hindu priest is responsible for preserving the genealogy of the Syals, in a book called a Bah. It was in this book that Meera found that the Syals have been living in Lasara for the past 250 years."</ref>{{Failed verification|date=February 2021}}

==Hindu genealogy registers==
[[File:Haridwar from opposite bank of the Ganges, 1866.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Haridwar]], a site for Hindu pilgrimage, 1866 photograph.]]

Some notable places where [[Shraadhs]] are performed for the [[Pitrs]] are noted below. At these sites, it became customary for the family pandits (priest) to record each visit of the family, along with their [[gotra]], family tree, marriages and members present etc., grouped according to family and home town. Over the centuries, these registers became an important genealogical source for many families, part of splintered families, in tracing their family tree and family history.<ref name=bha/><ref name=janam/>

==See also==
* [[Barot (caste)]]
* [[Bhats]]
* [[Bhat Sikhs]]
* [[Charan]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ''The Hindu world: an encyclopedic survey of Hinduism'', by [[Benjamin Walker (author)|Benjamin Walker]], Published by Praeger, 1968.
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/next_steps/researchplaces_01.shtml Tracing your Asian roots on the Indian subcontinent], By Abi Husainy, 2011-02-17, [[BBC]]

==External links==
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