Hello Ed, Thank you very much for taking the time to provide these links for the LDS holdings. I'll be sure to investigate over the summer at the local family history centre. Best regards, Carolyn Eddie Thomas wrote: > Carolyn > > I'm afraid I don't have any answers to your questions. However, having > checked Hugh Wallis's site at: > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyHa > mpshire.htm#P > > it would appear that IGI coverage for Pamber is incomplete. > Nevertheless, > you can borrow filmed copies of various parish records of Pamber from > the > LDS. Here's what they have: > > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?dis > play=topicdetails&subject=509460&subject_disp=England%2C+Hampshire%2C+Pamber > +%2D+Church+records&columns=*,0,0 > > All that is, of course, assuming that Sarah originated from Pamber! > That's > for you to discover. However, given the prominence of the name Stamp > in > Pamber, I would suggest it's as good a place as any to start. > > As for moving from the north to the south, and vice versa, I think our > ancestors were a bit more mobile than we sometimes like to think. Of > course, > you can get generations of the same family staying put in the tiny > hamlet in > which they were all born. But you also find them turning up in the > most > unexpected of places. I suppose the rule here is: always expect the > unexpected (aka don't rule anything out). > > Good luck. > > Ed