Each IGI record usually has a Batch Number which can help diagnose the likely source of information. Click on the Batch Number and then click search without putting in any names and you will see the contents of the Batch. This will give you a pretty good idea. Some Batches are essentially a partial extract from a register others are more quirky - e.g. some may come from a family bible or similar family notebook which was never a public record. There was a discussion of Batch numbers earlier on this list which you might find useful. If there is no Batch number then you can usually still order in a Film of the original submission at your local Family History Centre but it may be nothing more than is on the screen unless the screen says otherwise is unlikely to give the name of the submitter. Batch C068532 for the Ebeneezer Independent at Ramsgate is quite a reliable transcription. The original registers sometimes contain quite a bit more info tho.. Often in [the filme of] original register it will say something like "privately" & occasionally gives name of a grandparent. Also register usually gives parents place eg "of Broadstairs". Ebeneezer Independent Ramsgate Registers can be search online as they are part of PRO's program to digitise Non=conformist registers. Background info at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/bmd/step1a.htm Free to do simple search at http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ RG4 1175 is the Ramsgate Independent Batch on the bmd registers site so you can cross reference this with IGI. Barbara Callcott ________________________________ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:39:52 +1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) From: "Kate Cunningham" <[email protected]> Subject: [Isle-of-Thanet] LDS member submitted information and Life Boats and Ebenezer Independant Ramsgate To: "Thanet List" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello everyone, I was wondering if someone knows the answer to these three questions? 1. I was searching the IGI for various branches of the families who married into my Thanet Wellard's and came across a lot of LDS member submitted entries for christenings and marriages (yes, I do know to take this information very carefully). Scattered amongst these entries were some actual extracted entries which did help to tie in some of the member submitted ones. Does anyone know where THEY got their information from? Did they take it from original registers? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Access Yahoo!7 Mail on your mobile. Anytime. Anywhere. Show me how: http://au.mobile.yahoo.com/mail