ORIGINAL MESSAGE.. it is said that many of the parish records for Essex are not in the IGI. those tend to be my ancestor's records. in fact, those tend to be a lot of people's ancestor's records. if we knew what the batch and film number was, we'd be able to trace our ancestry, but we can't because someone either didn't think that the specific church record should be in the IGI, or because at some point during an upgrade, FamilySearch dropped a number of records off the site-I can mention at least 5 records, but no-one (especially familysearch) will believe me because they aren't there anymore. perfect catch 22. Cornelia ------------------------------------------- I have found this problem, often. I work as a volunteer librarian at my local LDS FHC and we still have the older IGI on Cd's and also the extra old IGI on fiche. There are many entries missing from both files on the newer IGI on familysearch. If you'd like to send me your list that you can't find, I will have a look for you next time I'm there. my email is [email protected] Yours in Genealogy, Jan, in sunny QLD, Australia