Elizabeth it depends on the letter prefix the easiest way to check for the location you are looking at is to go the Hugh Wallis site - google IGI Batch numbers and click on the rootsweb link. Prefix letters for extractions from parish registers are usually C, P, J or K for births and christenings; M for marriages and E for what Hugh describes as mainly mixtures of marriages and christenings. However the new site now has a lot more burials indexed and some indexing projects seem to have the prefix I. The ones to be wary of are those with a film number or an A prefix which means that they are private submissions - some of these are fine but many are not. Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Adams Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:29 PM To: OXFORDSHIRE@rootsweb.com Subject: [OXF] Marriages Can anyone tell me if a marriage is on the IGI as an "exracted" entry (with number) but not in the parish register transcripts, is it likely to be in the Marriage Index or are they scanned from the register transcripts ? Elizabeth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interactive Oxfordshire parish map: http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/pardata.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
As there is a discussion about the IGI, if anyone is interested ... I have a pdf file from LDS explaining all the prefixes used for their batches. If anyone would like a copy, please e-mail me OFF-LIST (ftree at quineyclan dot force9 dot co dot uk). The file is almost 400KB and needs Adobe Acrobat to read it. Regards Heather On 14/11/2011 18:22, Wendy King wrote: > Elizabeth it depends on the letter prefix the easiest way to check for the > location you are looking at is to go the Hugh Wallis site - google IGI Batch > numbers and click on the rootsweb link. Prefix letters for extractions from > parish registers are usually C, P, J or K for births and christenings; M > for marriages and E for what Hugh describes as mainly mixtures of marriages > and christenings. > > However the new site now has a lot more burials indexed and some indexing > projects seem to have the prefix I. The ones to be wary of are those with a > film number or an A prefix which means that they are private submissions - > some of these are fine but many are not. > > Wendy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elizabeth Adams > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:29 PM > To: OXFORDSHIRE@rootsweb.com > Subject: [OXF] Marriages > > Can anyone tell me if a marriage is on the IGI as an "exracted" entry (with > number) but not in the parish register transcripts, is it likely to be in > the Marriage Index or are they scanned from the register transcripts ? > > Elizabeth >