Hi Susan,
Thanks so much for offering to do lookups at the archive centre for me.
Since your last message I had a look at the Bucks FH site, and had a look at their database search facility and it does look quite good. For just £2 you can get a county wide search for a surname over a hundred year period. That seems really extensive, and would produce a really thorough search too, especially when you can include name alternatives. I think I will do this for the Windmill baptisms. I will probably also up my spend by another pound or two and get the marriages and burials too!!! lol
As I am most likely to this this it is probably not going to be necessary for the lookups at the archive centre. If the systems there run in a similar way to the Bedfordshire archive (to which I have been) then one has to search each parish book separately, and if the people for whom we seek have moved parishes then it can be a difficult way of searching. Oh, I just realised, they probably have the database on the systems there... doh!!
Ok, if I order the database searches from the site, I will let you know, so that you can use your time at the archive centre for other things.
Thanks again for your help
Kind regards
Marion