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I was just wondering, do any of you have any idea when your family first became Sikhs?

Mine became Sikhs at the time of the 7th guru. Guru Har Rai Sahib came to my pind. He stopped off with an army before heading off to Kartarpur Sahib.

I don't know how accurate this story is but I was told my some old people, they said that the Guru came to the pind and wanted to stay there. Some villagers refused and turned them away. Then some villagers went after the Guru and asked them to come back. Then the Guru is said "those who came back will stay and the ones who didn't will go away from this pind". Don't know if this story is true, but its the one I was told.

So I was just wondering if anyone else knew how their family became Sikh.

So you are the one from those lucky familes who did benti :)

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A friend of mine is a Punjabi Hindu Bahman and he traced his family record back many hundreds of years by contacting the family purohit in Benares who over generations, records names of the deceased whose ashes are brought for immersion in the Ganga.

Thats true veer, my dad got the names of our elders dating back 200 years based on those records from Kurukshetra.
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So you are the one from those lucky familes who did benti :)

Seems that way. My family were definately blessed, never had any trouble.

I would really like to trace my family back. I'll be checking land records when I go next time.

Is there a way of finding out when a house was built? My old ancesteral home is still there, in the middle of the pind. So it must be really old. It's been there for at least 5-6 generations (as far as my dad can remember).

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Most jamabandis will go back to the Britsh settlement period of the mid 19th century. Beyond that is hit and miss and there will often be gaps. Sub tenants will not have records as the main landowner would have everything in their name. The website provided by the Punjab Govt is good, but not up to date despite the date (viz mutations recently registered) at the bottom of the Jamabandi and only leads me back to my great grandfathers on either side. The original Britsh settlement record - probaby dated 1849 for most Doabis, will list several generations back in many cases and thereafter you will get the last one or two generations for continuity confirmation. The older records are written in farsi/ urdu script and despite being able to normally read this, it often appears as an illegible scrawl and so its best to enlist the help of a clerk at the Tehsil.

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