I just came across the following fascinating item on a website that is conducting a trial of online digitised newspapers from the British Library..... >From Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, Dublin, April 12 1851: "REMARKABLE FACT. There is now residing at Watford, in Hertfordshire, the wife of a respectable licensed victualler, not more than forty-three years of age, who was safely delivered, on Monday last, of her thirtieth child." As you can imagine, I am now very keen to find out who she was and if it was true! However, no name is given. Grrrrrrr.....doesn't it make you want to spit? Presumably, this lady must have figured in the 1851 census, which was conducted only a few days before the birth of her 30th child. But how to find her, that's the question? Simply entering Hertfordshire as the county and Watford as the parish at Ancestry produces over 6,600 entries in the 1851. And just calling up the June and Sep quarters of 1851 for births at Watford in FreeBMD produces scores of results. Short of trawling through the lot and checking each name in the 1851 census (and that is hours and hours of work), can anyone think of a quick short cut to finding out who she was? Or, indeed, has anybody come across this woman before? And yes, I've tried the Guinness Book of Records websites and, no, she doesn't appear! Grateful for any suggestions. -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE