Thanks Katie, Thanks for your reply. I have a lot of certificates and records on SP, many of which I have printed out but sometimes - in fact quite often I go back to a page of entries that didn't seem to be mine when I looked originally but now prove to be connected. I'm not really bothered by those few that appear before the alphabetical list but am puzzled by them. One day I'll ask SP. Best wishes, Mary At 06:15 PM 3/11/2008, Katie de Haan wrote: >I'm not entirely sure which number you mean in your question on >statutory numbers. All my SP certs have a number of sorts, be it a >census number, OPR or statutory record number, those last applying >only, of course, to BDM records post-1855 when statutory >registration began. Maybe you're referring to something else? > >As for the timeline, I must admit the first time I clicked on that I >was half-expecting some amazing horizontal multimedia happening, >whereas what it seems to do is list the certs I've viewed in >chronological order. As a finding aid, this could be very handy, if >I bothered to use it but for some reason I only ever put about ten >in, of the literally hundreds of records I've found.