Peter Knott <peter.knott@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hello David > Thank you for your input. Their children were baptised at St Mary's Bury > St Edmunds so that marriage location fits perfectly. > Bury is of course within the Archdeaconry of Sudbury but there does not > appear to be any substantive reason why new FamilySearch has listed the > marriage in that way. Listers have suggested that the marriage might have > been by licence or that the LDS record was taken from Bishops Transcripts. > LDS Help in response to my query merely reported back to me the facts > that I had given them! Peter If you go back to my response of 3rd February you will see that I directed you to the film which clearly stated that the full title of the film was "Bishop's transcripts for the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1560-1853". I would guess that the new search facility has decided to abbreviate this and having given the film number has left it up to the researcher to look for the full title. Bishops Transcripts are copies of the returns made by each church of the births marriages and deaths in their parishes. Many incumbents - as it was they who could either give or deny permission - would not allow the Mormon Church to copy their records and I believe that this led to the copying of the transcripts so that all could be ordained into the church. It needs to be remembered that the primary purpose of the extracts is not to help genealogists but to further the work of the church. This is why you may not get the answers you expect when enquiring about the indexes - there is currently a debate about this on soc.genealogy.britain as it looks as though when the old search facility is fully replaced by the new family search that there will be no ability to download GEDCOM files. Brian