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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 164 Send Message	immy	Report	18 Oct 2007 18:06
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 164 Send Message	What is the BVRI please?
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 164 Send Message	immy	Report	18 Oct 2007 18:18
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 164 Send Message	Sorry, I'm being thick, but what exactly is the index all about?
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 164 Send Message	immy	Report	18 Oct 2007 18:30
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 164 Send Message	I love to read the requests on here, and as I do, I come across stuff that I don't know about, such as the BVRI.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	18 Oct 2007 18:38
	BVRI is a set of 16 discs that you can purchase from the LDS Church via the Familysearch site. They contain christenings and marriages from various parishes in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. They usually cover those not on the IGI but there is a little overlap. They contain 10.4 million christenings and 1.9 million marriages, dated 1530-1906. Margaret
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 357 Send Message	dancingqueen	Report	18 Oct 2007 20:08
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 357 Send Message	Thanks Capricorn Joanna