Bert, Accessing IGI batch numbers from that web page IMO has always been a task. However, if you look closely at the top there is a "download" button. This will allow downloading the list in a multiplicity of ways: ZIPed and non-ZIPed in Access, Excel, or text formats. Note: Hugh Wallis has a web site that has the Batch Numbers for British Isles and North America I find much easier to use. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Page In addition to an extensive explanation of what Batch Numbers are, it will also take you to a search of the selected Batch Number for specific surnames. BTW, have noticed the German Batch Number list may not be up-to-date. It is always a good idea to try adjacent numbers (and other prefixes) once you find one for your village. At 02:02 AM 4/16/2009, you wrote: >From: JandB178@aol.com >Subject: [BW] IGI Index to German Towns >To: BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-L@rootsweb.com > >A colleague in the Rochester Genealogical Society gave me an address for a >German website that indexes the IGI records by town name. > _www.igi-index.de_ >(http://www.igi-index.de) > >I don't see a way to quickly get to my town of interest unless someone has >a better idea? > >Swiss Genealogy: Church books that now lie in an archive and permission >to film them has been denied to the LDS church can present a problem for us. > I had almost given up trying to find anything about my ancestors in >G?chlingen, Kt. Schaffhausen. A cousin I met on the Austrian Vorarlberg >Rootsweb list has a cousin in Thun, Kt. Bern who has offered to do >my leg work. >Networking is the name of the game in genealogy! > >Bert Balt >Rochester, NY ____________________________________________________________ Click here to find the right business program for you and take your career to the next level. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYRam2uKzD8MQD8Rr0vVifYq4urA7w3o68mHpccZbH4B4PHGL1fpWQ/