In a message dated 09/08/2007 10:27:27 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Could SKS do a lookup for me, my GG Father Walter Smith was b.6 apr 1834. what were his parents names and if possible where they were from Could you have been 10 years out? A Walter Smith was baptised at Bishopwearmouth on 26 December (Boxing Day!) 1824. His parents were Walter and Ann. There was also a Walter, son of Thomas and Isabella, baptised at Gateshead Fell (St John's) on 11 July 1831 and another Walter baptised at Heworth in 1838 (no further details known to me). However, to fail to give a parish or even a district containing a small number of parishes requires, for the whole of Co Durham, much more than a "look-up": It requires a considerable amount of research time! There will be much more detail of the entries I have mentioned in the originals, which are in Durham County Record Office. They should include both parents' names, the address and the father's occupation. Geoff Nicholson