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    1. Tricks for the IGI batch #'s
    2. Debbie
    3. I've had a few people email me asking how you obtain the IGI batch numbers from the familysearch.org website. There are a couple tricks you can use to try and locate them to see if there are any for other counties, or for that matter, any other counties in other states. The best luck I've had, is with using a common last name that you have seen for the specific county you're working on, or the last name you're working on. Go to the IGI section on familysearch, put in North America, the state and the county and put in either the name you want, or pick a common last name. Don't put in a first name at all. I have made several trips to the local Mormon church library, and was surprised to learn, that the members working there, aren't aware of being able to do this? I was even more suprised to learn, that people at their main library, Salt Lake City, weren't aware you could do this either? I have a good friend in Utah, that frequents their main headquarters and was very surprised too. I thought that was odd? Something else you may consider, if you go to the LDS library and order say marriage or birth records for a specific county, there is a charge, it used to be about $3.50?, to order the film. It stays at the library for I believe a couple weeks. HOWEVER, if you pay $9.00, not sure its still that amount, the film stays at the library INDEFINITELY, which means, I believe, that the church members then have the option of uploading all of that info onto their website. The christenings that came through on the IGI #'s for Jefferson Co.'s St. Peter Evangelical church, was the! film that I ordered to be there indefinitely because of my time restraints. I think? there are a couple of other people on this list, that may or may not be able to verify that. Also, use GOOGLE and do a search for IGI Batch #'s for whatever location you are looking for. There are people that have pulled batch numbers for locations all over the world. I did locate one person that has some batch numbers for other counties in KY, but I'm not sure how up to date they are. You can see them at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbersNA/SPKentucky.htm Hope this helps! Debbie P.S. If someone emails me and you don't get a reply right away....my server is sending me a new dsl modem because mine is wearing out :-) My service is being interrupted off and on.

    03/10/2005 03:35:26