Carole, Here are a couple of messages that I kept, including the one from David Hawgood. Tina ----- Original Message ----- From: Deborah L. Jeans <dljeans.winscot@nf.sympatico.ca> To: <WESSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [WSX] Finding Children on IGI A friend of mine put me onto this little trick - switch the father's name with the mother's name and vise versa. He found two more children listed for his family using this tip. Debbie Jeans, CG(C) Certified Genealogist (Canada) St.John's, Newfoundland ==== WESSEX-PLUS Mailing List ==== If your relative was a mariner why not have a look at: http://www.mariners-l.freeserve.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: David Hawgood <David_Hawgood@compuserve.com> > To: WESSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WSX] Finding Children on IGI > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:30:51 -0500 > > Joy Hungerford asked about the technique required to squeeze a list of > children from FamilySearch. Paul Benyon replied with the technique using > the batch number, which gets out all children if the family in the same > batch - usually all the children in the same parish. > > There is an alternative, which gets children in several parishes. Don't put > any names for the child - not even the surname. Put in the surname and > forename of the father, and the forename of the mother. You can choose a > country and county, and a range of years. You cannot choose exact spelling. > > As an example, put Michael Cass as name of father, Mary as name of mother, > British Isles as region. You get 9 matches, with two parishes in Yorkshire > and one in Lincoln - and it is all one family (and it's mine!). > > If you get too many hits it is worth adding the maiden name of the mother - > but this loses a lot of genuine matches where the mother's maiden name is > not in the record. For example, try children of Henry Hawgood and Maria, > then try children of Henry Hawgood and Maria Pennestone - the first gives > children from different families in Pembrokeshire and Rutland, the second > reduces it to the family in Rutland. > > regards, > David Hawgood. > pro.gov.uk/leaflets/Ri2118.htm > >