Hi, Is SKS able to a lookup for Ann MEDCRAFT born abt 1769 in chalgrave, Bedfordshire, Parents and siblings if possible please Ruth

Ruth, The place to look is the Hugh Wallis batch site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#C Here all you need is a surname. The Chalgrave christening batches cover 1539-1871 and there is not a single Medcraft listed. Even the marriage batches have only a single Medcroft marriage 100 years earlier. All the data on IGI for Ann Medcraft comes from user submissions. It looks like they are working from a single marriage date. Not sure where they would have found it. I doesn't appear on Chalgrave PR's. And there are four other January 1788 marriages, so it's not as though a page is missing. I hope somebody else can come up with some enlightened suggestions. Peter

> > All the data on IGI for Ann Medcraft comes from user submissions. It > looks like they are working from a single marriage date. Not sure where > they > would have found it. I doesn't appear on Chalgrave PR's. And there are > four > other January 1788 marriages, so it's not as though a page is missing. Peter, that fact that a record doesn't show as part of an extracted batch in the IGI doesn't mean that it doesn't exist in the original PRs. Extractions are not always complete; in particular you have to note the LDS approach to duplication. If an extracted record and a user submission are identical, then the extracted record will be removed from the IGI. So, in this case, the only way to find out is to look at the PRs themselves. (My guess is that it might very well be there, because the bride's age works out as 19. When dates are total guesswork, the bride is presumed 21 and the groom 25, which is not the case here, so it would appear that some proper research might have been done.) Steven