I am so happy Wynnette put her message on. I fell in love with the term "swimmers" and some of us in the US and Canada, etc. also have our "swimmers" when we just can't find how they got there be they crew members that jumped ship in the new port, or whatever. That brings me to gaps in records. I had been telling you that they records are in terrible shape and a lot depends on the condition of the priest at the time - sober, tipsy, sleepy, healthy, Alzheimers, etc. The gaps are another matter. There were times that records never got to the book. Perhaps they were jotted down on scraps of paper that got lost, or the priest was sure he would remember all the events but couldn't. When you are looking at films like this take careful note of the dates for the entries. You won't be able to tell if a day is missing or maybe even a week missing, but if you think something should have happened on a certain date and the entry is not there but there are no entries for a period of time around then, it might well be one of those unexplained gaps in the records, There is one thing that might make a helpful database for us. If you can jot down the baptism information of illegitimate children, particularly those with no fathers names, it may help some of us locate entries in parishes we would not usually look at for reles. Janet