Megan, As I stated in a previous post, they are exaggerating to some extent. A Burial and MI for the same person counties as two records. As far as Marriages are concerned, although only one entry in Parish Registers, I suspect they are counting Bride and Groom seperately, hence doubling these entries. For Baptisms, I suspect they are counting names of Child, and both parents as three entries. I may well be wrong, and hope I am, but cannot see how they can arrive at the total they claim, unless there is an element of Double Counting. They call it marketing! Achwr ======================================== Message Received: Mar 19 2012, 01:48 PM From: "Megan Roberts" To: "Dyfdd List" , "car list" Cc: Subject: [Dyfed] Parish Registers As many of you will know Findmypast issued the following press release on 1 March 2012: We have just published almost 4 million Welsh parish registers on findmypast.co.uk This is the first time that the complete Welsh parish baptism, marriage and death records have been published online and is fantastic news for anyone with Welsh ancestors. The records cover Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Glamorganshire. Further details are as follows: * Baptisms: 1,418,921 records covering 1538-1911 * Marriages: 950,254 records covering 1539-1926 * Banns: 340,002 records covering 1701-1926 * Burials: 1,169,685 records covering 1539-2007 Coming soon are records for the following counties: Anglesey, Brecknockshire, Caernarvonshire, Merionethshire, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire and Radnorshire. Regretably this is not entirely accurate. I know from my own research in Aberystwyth that the records for Cardigan St Mary go back to at least 1669. If for instance you search Parish Records on the basis of "Evans" (surname) in Cardigan for baptisms they only go back to 1808, marriages back to 1755 and burials back to 1655 - of course in the latter case these come from the National Burial Index. I haven't been looking for "Evans", but I thought that I would pick a very common name to illustrate my point. I have asked FMP for a comment, and if I get one I will pass it on. Megan ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ACHWR