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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Topic started by: If Only on Monday 08 November 04 16:29 GMT (UK)
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Hi all,
I have just started to use this terrific site and recommend it strongly http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#PageTitle.htm
It lists batch numbers for the British Isles and North America.......once you find the number you want you just click on the link and go straight into the IGI records for whatever church it refers to.
Have a look!
If Only
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If Only,
Thank you for posting this, very helpful indeed.
Best Wishes
Scatty
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Yes this helps a lot when searching!
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Good tip...
Thanks
Paul
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Thanks 'If Only'.
I've just found some brothers and sisters of my gg.grandfather by searching on this site.
Regards
Elaine
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fantastic!!!!!!
very useful
sarah
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Brilliant :) I always thought there should be a parish-level search. Thanks for the link!!!
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Hi
The other feature on this site is the middle name search.
I had a George Bowker Cock - was looking for his birth without success, I searched the relevant county, and bang- there was George Bowker Cook
This aspect has found me a few extra links
Well worth it
Bob
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great site,took me back at least 2 generations
edwinwrg
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Found it by accident, & how much time does it save. Hopefully a huge brickwall just crumbled. To any new user, be patient, especially if you are not very computer literate. It will save you heaps of time and narrow your search to a surname. My biggest problem was towns that didn't seem to exist, but they are all there. Well done Hugh Wallis.
Boydi
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This is well worth finding and checking out as for years I did it the hard way! The batch numbers are great and thanks to Hugh. The more resources for family history the better as it helps us to connect quicker, as we are time limited!
John Rowley
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Another good and very useful site.
But note that some batches are missing. For example, Batch C023119 (Extracted Christening records, Patching, SSX) has been invaluable in my research. But the Hugh Wallis site fails to list it. The only batch it gives for Patching is one for marriages.
Stovepipe
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Hi All
heard about this site in the chat room the other night.
Have since moved my Holyoake of Redditch search along by light years.
If it keeps on producing for me the way it has been, I'll be in the next galaxy with the Holyoakes by the weekend.
;D
seven of nine ( for any of you trekkies out there)
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Only problem is that the parish I want isn't listed......*sob*
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Oh Boy! This has great promise, thanks to whoever Hugh Wallis is, if he reads Rootsweb, for what must have been hours of work.
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Yes the Hugh wallis pages are invaluable. He should have 6 starts immediately if he joined RootsChat!
It is worth reading his preamble about teh coverage of his "links". There are more records on the IGI on Family Search which are not included here - in particular those which have been submitted by Mormon Church members; the reliability of these church submitted records are sadly mixed.
JULIAN
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That was very helpful. I was able to fill in a lot of siblings without tons of hunting and pecking.
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If your results are too numerous to go through...save time by taking the batch number back to the Family search site and putting it into the IGI batch numbers box with the name of the parents in the initial listing, and it will give you the other results from the parish without having to peruse all within your decades of search. ( leave out mother's surname if no results, as we all know how important that was to the entry ::) :P ) Those of you with the surname Smith to search will appreciate the time saving, I am sure...
Trouble is, sometimes only the mother or father are listed, so you may have to try only father and then only mother, & the results may not be yours...also, as we all know, sometimes each child was born in a differnt parish..but then, that's OUR problem... ;D
It is a great site although not complete...but the above information should rectify that. Thanks Hugh Wallis, for sharing! J.J.
p.s. this also works for your results for all submissions on the site, in case you didn't know...
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oops, seems this isn't always so, as I just did some searches for Ireland where the extracted files came from batch numbers that coincided with the year not the area where born so the system has its inconsistancies...
alas, haven't one extracted listing with full forename & surname as yet :'(
J.J.
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Check out this posting !
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,217939.msg1137400.html#msg1137400
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All systems are meant to have falicies - hence the fun "of the chase" - I'm running like mad to keep up with some!
Hugh Wallis' site has been by my side for years - until I just stuck a name of an ancestor in and found that the LDS update their database!
They had not been there before and Lo! suddenly there they were - grateful and "gobsmacked" at the same time I had only been looking for them for 5 years - and the info checked out too!
Sometimes it pays to have a flutter!
Jude
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Well that is so good to know, as I had read that the LDS wasn't going to update since creating "VRI" version of the information sold on CD...
J.J.
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Somerset is poorly covered by extracted data as will be found on the Hugh Wallis site.
However, the procedure at :- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/FindingBatchNos.html
may find batch numbers not on the H.W. site and one can find that although the LDS has filmed the records, the data have not been extracted.
Sometimes other batches can be found accidentally - e.g. C172731 of Emmanuels, Bristol (Not quite Somerset but. . .!) which I found by random searching for a SMITH (or JONES?)!
Regards
Chas
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Well, they've just updated, as i sent them some info on Seaton's very early this year, but it had a cut off at Robert Seaton b 1781 (now ive updated further LOL)
so its good on that point if you're on my line.
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Can anyone tell me where I can find the 'middle name' search on Hugh Wallis's site. I have used it before, but now can't find it.
Thanks
Lilibet
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/index.htm
Rosie ;D
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Thanks Rosie
Regards
Lilibet
:D