Replying to myself... getting a bit circular! While I'm here; this is probably known to many listers, but for those it isn't - the familysearch.org website allows you to search records with names etc as a starting point, which can yield myriad possible answers. Another way is to target a location first, then search through such records as exist for it. A website that facilitates that is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers .htm I've found this particularly helpful when familysearch.org name-matching doesn't catch variant spellings. Trawling the records for a parish can find outliers the algorithm doesn't catch. Of course this process misses errors in the digitisation process; at some point beforehand a human being has had to make a judgement from someone's handwriting in an original document. For them, it's chase the microfilm I'm afraid. cheers Dale > -----Original Message----- > From: dyfed-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dyfed-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf > Of Dale Davies > Sent: Monday, 13 January 2014 7:42 PM > To: dyfed@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Dyfed] DYFED Digest, Vol 9, Issue 7 > > Breaking cover for a moment...