During my research I have used the IGI to find births and where they have been extracts I have accepted them and in due course verified them from the OPR itself. During a recent visit to Elgin I visited the Heritage Centre there to do a bit of research and found myself looking at the Roman Catholic Register for Fochabers on microfilm (by special agreement it is there) and discovered in that register several births recorded which I had previously found in the IGI and recorded in Batch C111444 (Urquhart) as extracts suggesting an adherence to the Established Church. The question now arises as to whether or not this was a mixed marriage or were the parents merely complying with what was supposed to be the legal requirement but ignored by many. The mother of the children appeared to come from a generally C of S family background but I also found births recorded for children born to what could have been her aunt although in this case I cannot find any children recorded in the IGI or the OPR. Just when I thought things were beginning to make sense! Ian A C Scott