Thank you Adrian, no this is just what I wanted to know. You weren't missing anything, it was me, I hadn't noticed this way of using the catalogue. (In other browsable collections I have used the browse link has taken me to a list of parishes not film numbers so I haven't needed this before). I am surprised things aren't more 'joined up', i.e. once I find the film no. in the catalogue it is plain text not a link. Also, there is no clue on the pages as to what is available online and what isn't, you just have to take the film no. and do a search for it on the BT 'browse' page (I've just compared Dawlish - images available, and Kingskerswell - images not yet there). I thought at first when your answer made it seem so simple I had wasted my time trying a few film no.s in the catalogue, but given this I am quite glad I have the overall picture. Teresa On 24/04/2016 16:13, Adrian Bruce wrote: > Am I missing something with what you want to know? The FS Catalogue > can be searched by place-name or film/fiche, so it is possible to find > the films for each place. Deciding what's been indexed and what's had > just images put up is another ball game. > > I just tried to use the catalogue to search for Abbots Bickington, for > no reason other than it's the first one on the list. It does try to > prompt you with a name partway through - I accepted the prompt because > I'm not sure that access via another version would work. That gave me > (from memory) 4 or so headings, one of which contained several items > including the BTs and it was clear that this lot was in the images, at > least. > > I've not given detail on the steps because I'd need to try several > options to work out the significant differences between the imaged > parishes and the image-less ones. But I suspect you can try a few and > find what you need. It's just that you have to do it parish by parish. > > Adrian > > On 24 April 2016 at 14:09, Teresa Goatham via <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > ...... They are clearly alphabetical and it hasn't been too much > trouble > to find what I want but does anyone know if there is a list > linking the > parish to the no.? > >

There's a mention of "British Digital" or some such similar phrase to indicate which group something is in. However, one parish that I checked (or its film) was in that lot but its images weren't online yet, so it looks like cataloguing is ahead of loading. Actually I do have to thank you for highlighting this facility. I have to show that my Marley ancestor went from Bishops Nympton to Barnstaple mid 1700s and didn't get there from some other parish. I suspect it would be faster to go through a microfilm than the BT images online - but since I've never been past Bristol RO physically, the BT images may be the only option for a while. Though even then, there's a lot of parishes to look at. (Why does Devon have so many parishes? :-) We make do with a lot less in Cheshire!)