I'm unsure as to why the records are labelled under 'Diocese of Chester' rather than plain old 'Cheshire'. There are no other datasets on FMP which are called 'Diocese of .' It may be that this title, Diocese of Chester, came from Family Search who did the original copying. We've been complaining for goodness how long about the origin of documents not being shown. One set often 'bleeds' into another and you could be looking at anywhere. Whether you find info from the Family Search website or FMP it's the same story. It's impossible to tell at times exactly which document you are looking at. Chester RO take no responsibility for the confusion at all - I complained and got nowhere. I check with the CPR project as far as is possible. I just hope they get to the Prestbury registers soon. I rely heavily on the Cheshire parish records for my work and FMP is the only website on which I can see the actual image. I don't know whether FMP has other counties' images in the same way and how they are listed. Perhaps if FMP were to give a starter 'County' Search box which gave us a menu of all the datasets connected with that County before we choose our Record Set it would help. Just nosing around now I found more Cheshire sets under N for North Cheshire! Perhaps I need to try S, E and W!! There is nothing set in stone in this game. As county borders change, diocese merge and CofE Peculiars loom out of the mists not to mention Catholics, Protestants and all other divisions of faith it's a wonder we find anything at times. [While I've been writing this Adrian has come up with the answer to the Cheshire v Diocese of Chester problem - thank you Adrian.] Ruth

Me again... This link might be useful for people trying to find their way round the somewhat idiosyncratic FMP navigation http://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/search-all-uk-records/spe cial-collections/the-cheshire-collection That will probably break in most people's mail so this is a shortened version of the same thing: http://goo.gl/gKsvBN Basically, that's a front page for (almost) all the Cheshire Collection. The only omission is the Land Tax records that went up a few days ago. But the PRs and the BTs of the (ahem) Diocese of Chester are all there on that page. (I have it in my head that those weren't there before - but I may be wrong). Land Tax records are on... http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/cheshire-land-tax-assess ments-1786-1832 http://goo.gl/iKyJH1 Adrian B