Rachel, About 95% of Bedfordshire Parish Registers are on IGI. All that changed in 1812 was a new register format. Then from 1837 compulsory registration commenced. So you should be looking at IGI prior to 1837 and quarterly indexes thereafter. If you can't find people in Bedfordshire PR's prior to 1837, they are usually non-conformist or mis-spelt. Compulsory registration meant the demise of Parish Registers as a source, although some continued until much later. If you look at the Hugh Wallis site you will see the period covered by batches from each parish. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#PageTitle The problem with the lookups was that people were asking for information that in most cases they could find for themselves. If you have someone you can't find, post it on the list. There may be a good explanation coming for all those experienced eyes. Peter
Thank you everybody for your help. Cheers, Rachel On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Peter Booth <[email protected]> wrote: > Rachel, > > About 95% of Bedfordshire Parish Registers are on IGI. All that > changed > in 1812 was a new register format. Then from 1837 compulsory registration > commenced. So you should be looking at IGI prior to 1837 and quarterly > indexes thereafter. > > If you can't find people in Bedfordshire PR's prior to 1837, they are > usually non-conformist or mis-spelt. > > Compulsory registration meant the demise of Parish Registers as a > source, although some continued until much later. > > If you look at the Hugh Wallis site you will see the period covered by > batches from each parish. > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#PageTitle > > The problem with the lookups was that people were asking for > information > that in most cases they could find for themselves. > > If you have someone you can't find, post it on the list. There may be a > good explanation coming for all those experienced eyes. > > Peter > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >