Genealogy Chat

Hi everyone i have looked on goggle and came across this site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyDevon_ and i found him under another name .Thanks again Lita

Brenda i think you have hit the nail on the head its Devon i need. Thank you all for you help .Lita

In the days when the IGI was produced on fiche, by county, large chunks of info were omitted from one of the updates. It was suggested that these entries did not get reinstated and the early fiche editions were kept because of that. Norfolk and Devon are two counties where the Mormons have been refused permission to film the registers. Again, this is a historic situation and I'm not up to date on any changes that may have occurred, but everything I've seen for those two counties comes from transcriptions and not original sources. B

Many parishes aren't covered at all (Norfolk being one) and some only for some dates. Hugh Wallis' batch numbers site -google to find - will tell you which parishes are covered and for which dates. There are also some other peculiarities - for example the Farnham Royal baptisms are girls only, no boys and I believe this is true for several other parishes too. nell

Myth handed down says that if the children died as infants, they were not transcribed. I have NEVER found this in batch transcriptions, since it implies you are considering every entry, but I suppose someone must have done. If you DID start omitting on that basis, then you are bound to get it wrong sometimes.

I had a couple of children's baptisms missing from one of my families, who I knew from Census records definately existed. Found out in the end that their church was closed for a few years for restoration (rebuilding?) and they had to use another parish.

Thank you Twinkle thats a thought i learn new things every day on here . Thank you Lita

Hi Peter thank you i know he was baptised because i have his inlistment paper's , i know where he was baptised so it must be the other answers you gave, trust it to be the one i need. Thank you for your help Lita

The IGI isn't complete. Not all years are covered. Apparently because of the way the registers were split up to be transcribed, more females are in the IGI than males.

Not baptised Baptised elsewhere Page not transcribed Not legible Page of parish register missing the list goes on Peter

Hi everyone a question i would like answered if you can. Why would not all of the children of the same family be on the igi, i have found some but not all. Thank you Lita