Thank you to all who have given me excellent advice on this subject. Most of the suggestions I have already tried without success. I have searched A2A exhaustively, and only come up with 1 entry that may possibly be related. I am specifically looking for court documents to try and prove or disprove parentage of an illegitimate child, born either in Brixton or Plymstock in 1772 - 1774. This catalogue seems to be what I need for Brixton: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=028-723&cid=0#0 but it doesn't go back far enough. I can't seem to find a like collection for Plymstock. I have found nothing on GENUKI for the parishes I am interested in. None of them have an OPC that I am aware of, unless they fall under a larger parish. I have googled my heart out looking for a searchable index of the Brixton registry covering 1727 - 1812, to no avail. Neither FamilySearch nor FMP have this registry. All I have left to try, as near as I can tell, are the paid sources. I looked into the DFHS some time ago, I think they might have some information that would be useful to me... But their website is poorly done, and doesn't give enough information. I seem to recall sending an email asking for more information on what is contained on the CD's they offer, and never got a reply back. I have learned that I can access Ancestry.com for free through my local LDS FH library, but I haven't yet had the opportunity to get there. THanks for all the help. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Sincerely, Blaine

Blaine, I am somewhat dismayed at your comments about the Devon Family History Society and its' web site. Please tell me what information is missing from the web site and why you consider it poorly done. All the information about the CDs that the Society produces is clearly shown in the shop- the contents may be obtained by clicking on the "View full description" link. I am sorry you never got a reply to an email, that is something we take seriously- if you could tell us when the email was sent I will look into it after the Christmas break. All our volunteers work very hard to ensure that we produce information that is of use to family historians, that is our aim - if we didn't we would not be the largest (by membership) Family History Society in the UK. Please note that the Society is 100% volunteer run, it has no paid employees. NOT everything is online but more is being added regularly both to our members' area and to Find My Past. As to the search for court documents etc. not everything has survived, what there is will be in one of the three Record Offices in Devon, for Plymstock and area you need to be looking at the Plymouth & West Devon Record Office, which has its' own online catalogue at http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/archivescatalogue. Terry Leaman Vice-Chairman Devon FHS- working from home. On 24/12/2013 18:25, Blaine Sanders wrote: > Thank you to all who have given me excellent advice on this subject. Most of the suggestions I have already tried without success. I have searched A2A exhaustively, and only come up with 1 entry that may possibly be related. I am specifically looking for court documents to try and prove or disprove parentage of an illegitimate child, born either in Brixton or Plymstock in 1772 - 1774. This catalogue seems to be what I need for Brixton: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=028-723&cid=0#0 but it doesn't go back far enough. I can't seem to find a like collection for Plymstock. > > I have found nothing on GENUKI for the parishes I am interested in. None of them have an OPC that I am aware of, unless they fall under a larger parish. I have googled my heart out looking for a searchable index of the Brixton registry covering 1727 - 1812, to no avail. Neither FamilySearch nor FMP have this registry. > > All I have left to try, as near as I can tell, are the paid sources. I looked into the DFHS some time ago, I think they might have some information that would be useful to me... But their website is poorly done, and doesn't give enough information. I seem to recall sending an email asking for more information on what is contained on the CD's they offer, and never got a reply back. > > I have learned that I can access Ancestry.com for free through my local LDS FH library, but I haven't yet had the opportunity to get there. > > THanks for all the help. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. > > Sincerely, > Blaine > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com