At 15:33 23/01/2013, Helen wrote: >Has anyone come across families where some baptisms are recorded and others not? Yes. >If you had lots of children would you baptise them all or miss a few? If times got hard, maybe they couldn't afford baptism any more. IIRC there was a tax on baptisms around the 1790s which would increase the expense. Are you using FamilySearch? If so, be aware that not all events show up. If someone has added a member submission to the old IGI, then if a batch extract "duplicated" that event, the batch extract is not recorded as the IGI couldn't handle duplicate records. When records were transferred to the "new" FamilySearch, there was no new batch extract so the event will be missing. (Source for this: AncestryInsider some years ago) Always check the original PRs and also the BTs as well (they aren't always the same - some events get missed on one or the other) Not all non-con records are available to look at - maybe some are there. Yes, it's a pain. I would love to be able to deduce family groups but without all the records it becomes impossible to say xx is son of yy because he can't be anyone else's. >Clues or advice would be gratefully received. Keep looking! Things do turn up as new recordsets are added to Ancestry etc. HTH Andy.