Thank you Paul. Your advice is sound- as always. I have seen some really dodgy information in the Patron Submissions over the years- especially places of birth so I have labelled them all as suspect. Doing my "Blind Pugh" act again! I shall have another trawl through. Best wishes Wendy But you're definitely missing out if you ignore all patron entries. They sometimes cover gaps in the LDS controlled extraction programme. They also sometimes give cross references known from family records which are very hard to discover from parish registers - for example quoting both parents of a christening, with mother's maiden name; or the death of a married woman recorded under her maiden name.

Wendy: > I have seen some really dodgy information in the Patron Submissions over the years- especially places of birth so I have labelled them all as suspect. Doing my "Blind Pugh" act again! I shall have another trawl through. They *are* all suspect! But just occasionally there's a real find. Search for example on Drusilla YORK, anywhere in the British Isles. Now, admittedly this isn't a common name, but there's only two, and one of them - the one born in 1858 - gives both parents' names, and Drusilla's date of death, after she'd married and emigrated to the USA! Her parents George & Margaret were my gg grandparents. Best wishes Paul