Hi Clive, What a fascinating mixture! I hadn't realised that Batches had such a mixed structure. I downloaded a few of the records from the batch, then I imported them into PAF . I opened up a random individual record and then opened the VIEW ALL SOURCES button to get: "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R), Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of April 15, 2009, Film #: 1866580, Batch #: I003786, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA" All of the records I looked at had the same film number ie 1866580. Then I put film number 1866580 into the Family History Library Catalog - Film number search & got http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=1866580 So the original data for this Batch can be seen on the film 1866580 which contains information from all the sources you were told about. By clicking on the links from there and then going to Film Notes for each source I think it possibly matches like this: Parish registers for Wootton, Kent 1546-1994(Items 1 - 5); Composite register, 1546-1811. Baptisms, 1794-1812. Marriages, 1754-1812; banns, 1754-1970. Marriages, 1814-1838 Parish registers for Waldershare, Kent 1561-1999 (Items 6 - 10);Baptisms and burials, 1810-1812. Baptisms, 1813-1913. Marriages and banns, 1755-1821. Marriages, 1813-1839. Composite registers, 1561-1808 (baptisms, marriages, burials). Parish chest records, St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Kent 1702-1934 (Items 11-14). Churchwardens accounts 1749-1934 Overseers rates 1835-1838 All the entries in the Batch are either Christening/Birth or Marriage (ie no Other nor Death/Burial) which means that a few christenings or marriages must have been noted in the St Nich at Wade parish chest records. I don't have much experience with parish chest records but the ones that I have looked at recorded things like burial expenses for paupers, amounts paid for pews, or donations to the roof, or poor rate collections. All of which means that your 1748 christening couldn't be from St Nich at Wade because the St Nich entries start a year later but doesn't eliminate Waldershare as a possibility. I still couldn't see a way to separate out the entries into their respective items, hopefully someone else can help with that. thanks for sharing the information about the mixture in the batch - I will now be much more interested in batches beginning with I Barbara Callcott ________________________________ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:48:00 +0000 (GMT) From: CLIVE BOYCE <[email protected]> Subject: [Isle-of-Thanet] St Nicholas-at-Wade baptisms/IGI Batch I003786 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In searching for baptisms of children of Kirby Curling batch number I003786 comes up. This gives no indication of the parish(es)involved. I have recently been in touch with the Church of LDS and they have very helpfully told me that batch I003786 covers: Parish registers for Wootton, Kent 1546-1994(Items 1 - 5); Parish registers for Waldershare, Kent 1561-1999 (Items 6 - 10); Parish chest records (their terminology), St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Kent 1702-1934 (Items 11-14). I have yet to discover how to identify the items 1 - 14. Batch I003786 may be helpful to anyone looking for leads to baptisms at St Nicholas-at-Wade. Clive Boyce ------------------------------ Enjoy a better web experience. Upgrade to the new Internet Explorer 8 optimised for Yahoo!7. Get it now.