New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Adding another feather to the digital India movement, the Government has envisioned a unique way to digitise the century old multi-generation ancestry records commonly know as 'pothee' in custody of genealogy priests at various pilgrimage centres in India.

For instance next time a pilgrim visit Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, they may track the record of past visit to the temple by their ancestors or family members at the flip of their finger or click of a mouse.

For this, National Archives of India has envisioned a project to digitise multi-generation ancestry records seeking to harvest traditional knowledge and community repositories and preserve them as a cultural heritage.

"NIA has approached these priest...