how do I shortcut the IGI?

[woozle]

Hi all
I am looking for children of a family which ranged from  Cornwall to Scotland. I know the names of the parents and have 5 children born to them but I want to see if they moved around producing childers as they went. Do any boffins out there know if it is possible to search the IGI so I can enter the parents' names without the childrens' names? I've tried doing it using batch numbers but I need to do this for the whole of the British Isles if I have any chance of finding other children.
Cheers
Woozle

[GeoffE]

Yes you just search the IGI using parents' names (which is what you want to do I think)

Search this page http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true

e.g.  searching for children of Fred and Mary MARTIN, 1830+/- 10 in British Isles finds children bap in Surrey and Yorks.

[oldtimer]

Hi Woozle

You can do this by leaving all the fields open except for the father's name and the mother's name. Don't enter anything else on to the board. This will bring up all the enries they have.

Bear in mind though that the IGI doesn't really give you enough information to differentiate between people, so if your names are quite common it will be very difficult to prove who are yours  

Good luck, Judy  

[woozle]

Thanks GeoffE and Judy.
The words thick and planks and as spring to mind. The only combination I didn't try was the pure and simple one.
Thanks again.
Woozle

[aghadowey]

Sometimes doing a parent search with father's Christian and surname and just mother's Christian name gets better results if her surname is not spelled the same in each record.
Also, searching all records using parent search brings up records worldwide. To narrow down the details that come up- do the parent search under IGI page and select 'British Isles' for example and psooible the country, etc.