KENT-ENG-L Archives

Archiver > KENT-ENG > 2000-11 > 0973141498


From: "mortara" <>
Subject: Fw: Using IGI batch numbers to get an entire register
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:04:58 +1100


Thank you. Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Lorie Begin <>
To: mortara <>
Date: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Using IGI batch numbers to get an entire register


>Hi:
>Go into Search for Ancestors.
>When that screen loads, there is a menu bar on the left hand side.
>Hit the reference for IGI
>There is your custom search.
>Lorie
>Windsor, Ontario
>Canada
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "mortara" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:04 PM
>Subject: Fw: Using IGI batch numbers to get an entire register
>
>
>> Hi All, The LDS FamilySearch has updated their site recently and now I
can
>> no longer find "custom search" if any one out there finds the where a
>bouts
>> of custom search on the above site can you please let me know. Shirley
>(from
>> overcast Sydney)
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patricia Rudkin <>
>> To: <>
>> Date: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:19 AM
>> Subject: Using IGI batch numbers to get an entire register
>>
>>
>> >May be this may be of interest to members of this Kent list..........
>> >I was sent this by a friend, who uses other lists...
>> >
>> >Subject: Using IGI batch numbers to get an entire register
>> >
>> >"RECENTLY, quite by chance, I came across an interesting feature of the
>> >LDS FamilySearch web site that I had not encountered before.
>> >
>> >Did you know that if in custom search on the IGI you enter just a batch
>> >number and a region and nothing else - leave all the other fields blank,
>> >even the surname field - you can get the entire parish register from
>which
>> >the IGI entries were extracted in alphabetical order of surnames? As I
>> >say,
>> >I discovered this by chance when experimenting. I left the surname field
>> >blank, entered a batch number which relates to a marriage register in
the
>> >parish [whatever is your interest] also entered just the region "British
>> >Isles", pressed "Search" and expected to get an error message telling me
>I
>> >must enter a surname. Up on screen came the entire register in
>> >alphabetical order! It works, even though the instructions tell you that
>> >you must enter at least your ancestor's last name. Of course, there are
>> >many hundreds of entries and you will have to keep moving to the next
200
>> >and so on until you have inspected the entire register. Downloading
could
>> >take even longer, since you can only do 50 at a time, unless you just do
>a
>> >"Select All" and "Copy" to copy the on-screen list and then paste it
into
>> >your word processor, which is what I sometimes do if I don't need the
>full
>> >details of each entry.
>> >
>> >There are some situations in which getting an entire register from the
>IGI
>> >could be useful - for someone conducting an in-depth survey of all the
>> >families in a particular parish is one thought. Another is if you cannot
>> >find an ancestor you believe to be there. It may be he/she is under some
>> >other variant of the name that you have not thought of and by scrolling
>> >through the whole register on the IGI you may spot it. My particular
>> >interest had not shown up on a single search because the LDS
standardised
>> >surnames arrangement did not apparently lump in the antiquated variants.
>> >It came up with some variant that had not occurred to me to try, though
I
>> >expect I would probably have found it eventually on the microfiche
>> >version."
>> >
>> >This is a brief summery of item!
>> >
>> >Regards
>> >Patricia
>> >Researching names:
>> >BUDDEN Devon/London Pimlico
>> >CAPRON France.
>> >C[H]RISELL Suffolk
>> >CO[O]MBER London or anywhere
>> >EASON Somerset EASTON Dorset
>> >EDEN Warks
>> >FEARON/FERON Newcastle upon Tyne
>> >FOSSEY Bucks
>> >HOLDEN Northants.
>> >HOOPER Somerset Merriott
>> >LAMBLE Ashburton Devon/Bovey Tracey/Wolborough Newton Abbot.
>> >MCKONE London or anywhere in 1800's
>> >NORRIS Stanmore, Hendon Middx
>> >ORD Newcastle upon Tyne
>> >PEPPER Great Marlow Bucks and Throwley Kent.
>> >SAWYER Suffolk, London St James Westminster/ Fulham
>> >SERCOMBE Dunsford Devon
>> >STEED Suffolk, Fulham West Middx, Hackney London, Bromley Kent
>> >RAMSEY Suffolk/London
>> >ROSE Bucks
>> >ROW[E] Suffolk.
>> >RUDKIN Essex/Norfolk/Suffolk/London
>> >VICKERY Matilda c1869, mother Mary Ann VICKERY Somerset NOTHING KNOWN
>> >WRIGHT Suffolk
>> >Member of Bucks, Devon, Essex, Suffolk and West Middx FHS's
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>

This thread: