"singhals" <[email protected]> schreef: > Check. For the parishes in question there APPEARS to be a unbroken > run of record books and entries in all cited parishes. For all denominations? If you were researching Scotland, you could imagine that having worked your way through the Church of Scotland records, you'd checked everything, but there were all these off-splits, each of whom had their own registers. > Actually, it wasn't. (g) But saying why will give details and get us > further into the weeds. :( I'm afraid that groping around in a fog isn't my favourite activity, and without knowing even the country, that's exactly how this feels. Every country has its quirks (e.g. the assorted scottish churches, ALL claiming to be Presbyterian). We keep telling the beginners to help us to help them, and this time you're being just too cryptic. Lesley Robertson "Lesley Robertson" <[email protected]>