Hi William Thank you for your reply and it is my fault in that I should have been more specific in my post. My Henwood's were in Middlesex during the 1800's and I have found them on all the census and I know about Hugh Wallis's site and the IGI. I was just wondering how well Berkshire was covered by the IGI as I seem to be finding big gaps. I can find a marriage but then no children appear to be recorded. Or I find a marriage but can't find any children born to the couple. This is using the IGI to search all of Berkshire and sometimes all of England. Are there any other paid sites other than Ancestry that has a good coverage of Berkshire records? Thanks Kerrie > Ancestry UK has Berkshire Henwoods in all censuses from 1841 to 1901 and > 360 > public trees of varying reliability and is a pay site >>looking for references to my family name - HENWOOD. >> I'm not really finding a lot and wonder if anyone could tell me whether >> Berks is well represented on the IGI or paid websites eg Findmypast?

Berkshire is quite well covered by the IGI - it has been suggested that around 70% of pre-1837 baptisms and marriages are there. I suspect this is an over-estimate; perhaps 70% of parishes are covered in part. There are, of course, a great many gaps - is any county complete? The Berkshire Record Office website is a good place to check - they show their own holdings for each parish and chapel as well as the availability of printed transcripts and the coverage on the IGI. www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk Similar information is given in Phillimore's Atlas and Index of Parish Registers. Every committed family historian should have a copy. There is no other online source for Berks PRs that comes close to matching the IGI. Berkshire FHS sell CDs for 20 or so parishes as well as a Burial Index (incomplete work in progress) covering virtually every parish as well as chapels, cemeteries etc (updated each year adding 50,000+ burials each time). Coverage is shown on their website. www.berksfhs.org.uk Oxfordshire FHS sell CDs (also available via Berks FHS) covering groups of parishes in 'occupied Berkshire' - the parishes transferred to Oxfordshire County Council in 1974. They have transcripts for virtually all of these parishes. www.ofhs.org.uk Both societies also offer lookup services which include marriage indexes for the two parts of Berkshire. Phil -----Original Message----- From: berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kerrie Sent: 24 September 2009 01:40 To: berkshire@rootsweb.com Subject: [BRK] IGI Coverage of Berks Hi William Thank you for your reply and it is my fault in that I should have been more specific in my post. My Henwood's were in Middlesex during the 1800's and I have found them on all the census and I know about Hugh Wallis's site and the IGI. I was just wondering how well Berkshire was covered by the IGI as I seem to be finding big gaps. I can find a marriage but then no children appear to be recorded. Or I find a marriage but can't find any children born to the couple. This is using the IGI to search all of Berkshire and sometimes all of England. Are there any other paid sites other than Ancestry that has a good coverage of Berkshire records? Thanks Kerrie

Hi Phil Many thanks for your detailed explanation of the Berkshire parishes and the IGI coverage. I've had a look at the Berkshire FHS website & will go ahead and get a few searches done of their databases. Hopefully I'll find a few of my missing families this way. I will also look at the Berkshire RO website for their coverage of parishes. Thanks again for your great help. Cheers Kerrie > Berkshire is quite well covered by the IGI - it has been suggested that > around 70% of pre-1837 baptisms and marriages are there. I suspect this is > an over-estimate; perhaps 70% of parishes are covered in part. There are, > of course, a great many gaps - is any county complete?