I'm examining the local history of Fownhope in the 1840s and 1850s. As part of this work I'm in the process of transcribing the Fownhope parish baptism registers. To save myself an awful lot of typing at the record office I downloaded from the IGI what amounts to a complete and reasonably accurate indication of the register entries and in the comfort of home put them into an Excel spreadsheet so that all I have to type in from the registers is the parents name and abode and the occupation of the father. So far I've transcribed the baptismal registers from 1813 to 1828. A curiosity is that virtually every entry for the name JONES and most entries for the names POWELL and GOODMAN appear to be missing from the IGI record. It's almost as if someone has taken a deliberate policy decision that these names aren't worth recording. Can anyone suggest why this should be so? More importantly, if anyone is forced to rely on the IGI in the first instance and appears to have lost from Fownhope a JONES, a POWELL, a GOODMAN or also a LINK or a BRYAN, names which sometimes seem to suffer the same fate then e-mail me and I'll see if I can help. (I already have a complete transcript of the 1843 tithe apportionment, the 1841 Fownhope census entries and am about a third through the 1851 census for the village.) Brian Gange -------------------- bgange@netcomuk.co.uk In Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire