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I'm looking for someone who has access to a fiche of the Oving parish records for 1769 (not a transcript).

John Clark was baptised on 10 December 1769, and I need to know his parents names. The transcript from PRTS and SFHG transcripts say his father was John Clark, but that doesn't seem to fit. I'm hoping it's a transcription error and his father was actually Thomas Clark.

I'd be very grateful if someone could confirm that one way or the other.

Thanks in advance.

Is there someone who can look up a baptism record in Banbury for me, please? It's for Sarah Cowper, born approx 1814.

After some struggles with the 1841 census, and doing some checking with marriage records I think there may have been two Sarah Cowpers baptised in Banbury about that time. Hopefully one will be listed as Sarah Anne (not mine) and the other as plain old Sarah.

Thanks in advance,
Mark

I'm about 12 months into serious family research, and all the low-hanging fruit has long gone. I'm now at the point where I'm attacking dead ends. The problem is that I can't research every week (or even every month) and I sometimes forget what records I've looked in (or I can't read my own handwriting!).

So here's a simple question. How do you record which records you've examined and failed to find any results? A simple list attached as a note to the person? A clever database/spreadsheet? The back of an envelope? Or something else.

And now the slightly more complicated question. How do you store what parish records are accessible in which locations? For example, Parish A might have baptisms available of FreeReg, marriages on FindMyPast, and burials only on mf at the Record Office. Parish B might have baptisms on ancestry, marriages at the local FHS, and burials on a CD I don't own yet. How do you keep track of all that?

(I'm using TNG to store my data. I have FTM2011 too, but I prefer TNG.)

As Hugh Wallis' excellent IGI batch numbers site hasn't been updated for a long time, I decided to have a go at creating my own index of batch numbers, mainly for my own purposes. So far I've covered the batch numbers C000000 to C060000, which results in about 17,000 valid batches, and am adding about 7,500 valid batches per day. You'll be able to guess that I'm automating the process! The downside is that bad data on IGI won't be cleaned up.

So, here's some questions:

• Would an up-to-date batch number index be useful?
• Is there anything you'd like to do with batch numbers that you can't do on Hugh's site?
• What is the best way of keeping the data up-to-date and free from errors?
• At the moment my system doesn't cope with batches that cover multiple parishes. How much of a problem is this?

I won't necessarily be able to implement all suggestions, but I would like to know what others would find useful.

As best as I'm able to tell from the censuses, Moses George Cocks was born around 1793 in Starston, Norfolk. Can you help find his baptism, and perhaps those of any siblings? Cocks may be spelled as COCK, and he often dropped the Moses.

He married an Ann, presumably around 1815-1820, though as Ann was from Norfolk you guys probably can't help on that .

I'd be grateful for any help you can offer. Thanks!