In a message dated 7/17/2006 11:02:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dwayne55@comcast.net writes: > The LDS records are a mixed bag. Those that are submitted by members of > the > LDS are often (if not usually) undocumented. However, the LDS has one of > the world's largest collections of the images of old church records, > including births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, etc. If one knows how to > tell the difference between the wheat and the chaff, a research trip to the > LDS library and archives in Salt Lake can prove invaluable. Som e of the submitted information is truly worthless, even amusing. However, there are some gems online also. Various church records have been transcribed and put in the IGI databanks also. I have found no listing of these, but I have, through time, found some of them. The clue appears to be a batch number beginning with a c for christening or m for marriage. After the batch number there is a date range. For example: Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lebanon, Lebanon, Pennsylvania batch # C504221 1763 - 1876 If you go to the IGI search screen, enter that batch number and put in North America for the region You can search the Salem baptism records. If you do that, and simply push search, if gives you the whole thing starting from A. Tony