A little late to the fray, but I get the digests, and have been gardening all weekend! Before anyone gets too carried away, let's not forget that non-con records are different beasts to CofE registers anyway. Their survival is patchy, and in many cases even if they do survive the nature of the records means they may not contain what you want anyway. I've a local baptist church where the minutes book records the minutes of all the meetings held (care to know who demolished the old manse? Or went round prodding the non-attenders?), burials rather patchily recorded over twenty years or so, no marriages (possibly not legal in a baptist church in this period - not having baptists in the family, I'm not sure when they became permissible) and, of course, no mention of births or infant baptisms! On the other hand, the local Congregational church records infant baptisms, and mother's maiden names... So what you get depends on all manner of things. Adrian