One note - when I have done transcriptions in parish registers during the mid 1600's (civil war if I remember correctly)  - often no record was kept and after that period sometimes whole families would come in and have their information entered - possibly for inheritance reasons?? because it was usually the more well to do families that had their past information added. It would by no means be complete. In order to see if this is the situation, one would have to look at the original microfilm of the parish register. The whole register would have to be checked because additions like that can be stuck in anywhere and often do not show up where expected. Beverly From: Annie Woodward via <sfhg@rootsweb.com> To: SFHG <sfhg@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:33 PM Subject: [SFHG] gaps in registers Dear listers Thanks for your comments thus far. Of course I totally understand that old registers can sometimes be too difficult to handle, transcribe or simply lost etc etc.  However, I would personally really appreciate some kind of 'statement' on the SFHG website as to why when there's a gap, or no record at all e.g.  I need information from Thakeham but baps are not there after 1663- why? [very interesting to see that they are mentioned by TNA as being held at WSRO:  http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=182-parb&cid=-1#-1   Likewise no records for Washington at all and nothing for West Tarring after 1837. Just some guidance on whether it's useless to look further because they simply don't exist or that they still haven't been transcribed would help.  Who knows, it may even persuade researchers to offer their services in transcribing! Annie11632                         ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message