Thanks for suggestions, Celia. I do know there are gaps though. I was puzzled that one of my families consisted of only girls and then found from the OPR film that all the boys had been missed out, no idea why.
On the subject of the IGI, is there an easy way to find siblings? I used to do it this way: once I had found one child, I used to put the parents names in, a year range of +/- 20 years, the correct surname in the Last Name box and then a * in the First Name box. That used to get me all the siblings of a family and was a brilliant tool. Now if you try that you get a warning message about not using punctuation marks and it doesn't work anymore.
So is there another way of finding siblings if you don't know their names, does anyone know?
1 - there are many IGI batches containing girls only - no-one seems to know why
2. IGI parent search - If you input the parent names (must have surname for father) and years and location and omit completely name of person, you will get all children to those parents (and they do not have to be in the same batch - and, of course, could be multiple families with the same named parents).
Trish
