Hi John Here's the link sent to me. It works fine and also gives Canada and America links. As Jenny says the site has not been updated since 2002. Could you remind us all how to look up batch numbers on IGI Jenny, as I tried to do that but just kept getting lost in the system. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Menu Thanks again Jean.

Hi Jean I may have misunderstood your enquiry, but hav you tried this entry: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryEngland.htm#PageTitle This way you just pick on the English county you are interested in, which then takes you to the alphabetised list of places within that county and the batch numbers held against each town/village. Clicking on either the birth or marriage batch number then takes you to a search page where you enter the name you are interested in and hit the return key. Regards, Sally ---------------------------------------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:40:33 +0000 > Subject: [WRY] IGI batch numbers link > > Hi John > > Here's the link sent to me. It works fine and also gives Canada and America links. As Jenny says the site has not been updated since 2002. Could you remind us all how to look up batch numbers on IGI Jenny, as I tried to do that but just kept getting lost in the system. > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Menu > > Thanks again > > Jean. > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Jean, The only way I know to find batch numbers on the familysearch site is in the following manner, someone else might have a better way. Go to the familysearch site, look at the top tool bar for the Search Records link and click there. From the drop down list select Library Catalogue, now select Place Search and put in the place name that interests you and in the Part Of box add the County name or just England. Once you get a result from your search follow the link until you see a list of items available for that place and look for Church Record Indexes. Click on Church Record Indexes and from the list of results look for items that begin Computer printout of ----- click there and on the next page you should see a section entitled Notes which will give the batch number/s The only fault I find is that these numbers do not have the initial letter in front of them so you need to experiment by putting ether P,C, J or K for baptisms and M for marriages in front of the number until you find the letter that works. I usually experiment by making a search for the surname Smith or other very common surname and adding each of the above letter in turn to the batch number until I get a result. This is all a bit hit and miss I'm afraid. I am sure there must be a better way but I haven't found it yet. So maybe someone else can tell us another way. At least by making such a search as I describe above you can tell if the parish that interests you does have a batch number and entries for that parish should appear in the IGI, dependant on the years covered by each batch number and whether the surname you seek in the parish actually appears in those registers for those years. Hope this helps Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<Here's the link sent to me. It works fine and also gives Canada and America links. As Jenny says the site has not been updated since 2002. Could you remind us all how to look up batch numbers on IGI Jenny, as I tried to do that but just kept getting lost in the system. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Menu Thanks again Jean.>>

We now have the distinction of discovering a convict ancestor. Thomas Ellam started off with minor misdemeanors and this is documented in Huddersfield Examiner and Chronicle. At 13 he removed a canvas cover from a stall and sold it - got 1 month in Wakefield prison. Then he took 1s from an 8 year old child who was shopping with it. - He 2-3 months. Next crime was to steal 3 grates and sell them, he got 6 months (all before he was 15). Then he stole some clothing for sale - Housebreaking and was sentenced to 4 years transportation. He returned, couldn't get work, family disowned him and he stole some fish. Got 8 years transportation. He is convicted 19 Oct 1858 but he departs for Western Australia (which was the last place to take convicts) 10 Oct 1862. Now I wonder if he is deemed to have served 4 years prior to departure and then another 4 years on arrival. If I was him I wouldn't return to UK after completing sentence so can anyone suggest where I start looking for Austrlian records. I haven't needed to before now. We arrived here quite legally but I do live in the outback without access to Records in the Family History Societies or Library in the City.. Jean in S. Australia.