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Ginny

Ginny Report 22 May 2008 22:05

How do you go about looking for a Baptism please. I noticed on some of the information that I have asked for people have replied also having found out the Baptism date. Thanks

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 22 May 2008 22:12

Most baptisms come from the IGI on Familysearch here:

http://www.familysearch.org/

Make sure that the records that you use are extracted from parish records and not submitted by someone.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

MarilynB

MarilynB Report 22 May 2008 22:15

You can also get baptisms from parish records if you know the area or church near where they were born.

Marilyn

Researching:
Stirrup, Williams, Winter, Newton, Johnson, Barrett, Bruce, Bruen, Hartley, Proffit, Rogers, all in Manchester and loads of other names and places

Ginny

Ginny Report 22 May 2008 22:27

Thanks you two especially you Margaret always helping me out!!

Kate

Kate Report 22 May 2008 22:38

Also - I have learnt from experience - if you're looking for Catholic baptisms, you may not find them on the Family Search site. (Somebody on this site said apparently the Catholic churches wouldn't give the Mormon church access to their records.)

But you may find Catholic records in the county records office local to where your ancestors lived.

Ginny

Ginny Report 22 May 2008 22:54

I have just been having a play on the site with some dates that I know and it sends back no results. i know my grandfather is dead and i know when why would this be.?

Sam

Sam Report 22 May 2008 22:57

What sites have you been looking at and for what timescale?

The IGI is only good upto the mid 1800's, FreeBMD only covers upto about 1930 but deaths are not well covered. Neither of these is by any means complete.

If the person died c1930-1984 then the only way is by looking at the FULL death indexes on Ancestry or Find My Past.

Sam x

Ginny

Ginny Report 22 May 2008 22:59

oh thanks sam back to trawling the dreaded indexes then! I was looking at familysearch.org Margaret told me about it I was getting excited thought I may have found a quicker way x

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 22 May 2008 23:05

Yes, that's the problem with IGI, Ginny, it doesn't cover deaths. Something about the Mormon religion. The BVRI discs are the same, there are no deaths.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

Ginny

Ginny Report 22 May 2008 23:09

oh well I learn a liittle each day.... off too bed now thanks xx