Thanks Meg, I'll give that a try Helen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Meg Greenwood" <scotquester@bartnet.net> To: <perthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] TAYLOR/Davidson > Helen - Have you used the BATCH SEARCH method of looking through the IGI > ? Its the same IGI, but looked at very differently....by searching > through each parish individually for names. This method has brought up > alternate spellings and complete misspellings that the regular IGI > search engine does not catch. Since you are searching Abernethy, use > the URL below and select Scotland, then Perthshire, then scroll down to > Abernethy. Select the year range you wish to search [births and > marriages are the only offerings] and either enter the surname Taylor in > the searchbox OR leave it completely blank. Entering no name in the > searchbox and hitting the search button will give you the ENTIRE batch > to search through - this can be dozens or tens-of-thousands of names > depending on the size of the parish book that was transcribed. > > I realize TAYLOR is not easy to misspell, but if the handwriting was > abysmal, this could have been recorded as perhaps NAYLOR or > TAYLEN....you never know with some handwriting. If you don't see the > years of interest listed with Abernethy, its most likely those books did > not survive and thats why they can't be found. Meg Greenwood / Oklahoma > USA > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryScotland.htm > > Tiny URL : http://tinyurl.com/3sbvrg > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > I am looking for a marriage entry for David Taylor bc 1806 and Catherine > Davidson bc1810 that can't be found on the IGI. It was between 1828 and > 1831, probably in Abernethy, Perthshire. This couple lived in Abernethy > with their children on many census snip > When replying to a message or a digest, please delete everything except > the portion to which you are replying. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >