Thank you Peter As you say, the 1989 print-out may usefully point to the existence of a needle in one of several haystacks, while also showing the need for a more detailed finding-aid. Thanks to FamilySearch, we seem to have leapt ahead to the age of digital images without having exploited the full indexing potential of magnetic tape in this field! I'm glad you found the 1769 documents so easily, despite my bad advice. I try not to "cheat" at genealogy by playing the psychic card too often, but sometimes (e.g. when faced with 1075 images to examine) intuition can be as good a guide as any. All the best David     From: "Peter J Richardson" <[email protected]>     Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:53:34 +0100     Hello David     Thanks for the reply - further comments below ...     > Hello Peter     >     > I'd be interested to learn more about the index you found.     It says that it was printed out in 1989 and a copy given to each of the     Suffolk Record Offices. ...     I would say that if you are looking for licence bonds at the NRO you are not     offered boxes - they are on microfiche by year, and you have the same needle     in a haystack scenario that you do with the LDS images. ...     For my 1770 marriage there seem to be three different sets of images     (assuming no duplication between the three sets) and for a 1769 marriage     there would be four different options one of which has a daunting 1075     images to look through!     Regards     Peter

Hello David, > I'm glad you found the 1769 documents so easily, despite my bad advice. I > try not to "cheat" at genealogy by playing the > psychic card too often, but sometimes (e.g. when faced with 1075 images to > examine) intuition can be as good a guide as > any. I downloaded the first image in the set intending to look at the date, with the intention of downloading the 457th image next and looking at the date on that then making a choice, but the date on the first image was close enough that I chose to start from the front. That however amounts to another play of the physic card because the licences are not necessarily filmed in date order. Regards Peter