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    1. IGI Batch Numbers
    2. Fred Jackson
    3. According to the current version of the IGI, my wife's 4 x Gt Grandparents, William Culff and Mary Monk, were married in Westminster on 27 Nov 1747. Unfortunately the entry does not give the name of the church. We took what seemed to be the obvious step to confirm the entry by visiting the Westminster Archives, where we were told that the entry was virtually meaningless since there were dozens of churches within Westminster. We searched their holdings for every church which was operational in 1747 for marriages and failed to find the entry. Later, I checked online at familysearch.org to see whether this was one of those 'member submitted' entries which I sometimes think have been inserted on the basis of 'I think it must have been so therefore it was' - a practice which I nickname 'cogito ergo erat'. However, I found that the entry appeared to be in a very large batch extraction, well in excess of 5000 marriage entries, all of them being between the years 1746 and 1751 - say something like 1000 weddings per year. The IGI batch number was: I 012285 I tried the Hugh Wallis website on IGI Batch Numbers, only to discover that he specifically excludes batches beginning with the letter I. A visit to our local LDS family history centre to see if they could help drew a blank. We would be most gratefull if SKS could point us in the right direction to solve the problem. Fred Jackson

    06/11/2005 05:45:53