Dear Bill Mitchell, You would like to research for yourself G. C. Chamberlayne's books on Bristol Parish. Are you near an LDS Family History Center? If so, I see from the catalog on <A HREF="www.familysearch.org"> www.familysearch.org</A> that there are films of two of his books on Bristol Parish. I did an author search, using Chamberlayne only, as I seldom can remember the initials. Click on his name, and a longish list of his works will come up. There are books of his at the Library in Salt Lake City, but the Births etc of Bristol Parish have been filmed: Film 1035876, Item 9 [meaning there are 8 other items preceding the Birth records] The vestry book is separate: Film 1036590, Item 2 (The vestry book generally has such subjects as processioning records, the poor law relief administered by the parish, etc. accounts paid, accounts owed, etc.) If you are near an LDS center, telephone and find their opening hours. They are run by volunteers and are not always open. You can order the films for a small fee, for a limited time, to your center. If SLC has duplicate films, you may not have to wait long. If the Library has to make duplicates, then there is a longer wait. Lookups are great, but sometimes you find people associated with your families, and you would like to know about them also. Also, you might like to know that the St. Louis, Missouri county [not city] Library has the genealogical collection of the National Genealogical Society, and they do interlibrary loans. I don't believe you have to be a member of NGS to effect a loan. I don't recall the URL for the St. Louis County library, but with a google.com search, you probably can readily find it. If not call up your own public library--which should have a directory of US libraries, at the very least. E.W.Wallace