I have read the responses to the Quakers with interest. Living in Australia, I imagine that you don't have much access to records in England. You may find that the actual Monthly Meeting records that you are looking for are filmed by LDS. I have English Quakers myself and have researched those MM records from Salt Lake and from my local FHC. My Quakers migrated in the 1670s to America but I have found all of them in the English MM records prior to that time. Mine are from Derbyshire and YKS and from these Quaker records, I was able to get them back to the beginning of the parish registers before they were Quakers. Those MM records are wonderful as they can tell you a lot about the society they lived in and about the individuals as well. For example, one of mine was thrown out for drinking and mistreating his family. I have also read with interest the discussions of slavery and the decision that Quakers could no longer own slaves and how that issue was treated in the meetings. Fascinating stuff! The records are found in the meeting, not in the town where they lived unless they are the same. There are lists of the meetings online. As I lost my hard drive in the spring with all of my favorites, I cannot easily locate this. But Google should work. Some of these MM minutes are indexed as well. The searchable databases look great but once you find someone, it is well worth going into the original records (or transcripts if that is all you can get). The Quaker birth and marriage records are not on the IGI for some reason and Quakers and Jews are the 2 groups exempt from needing to be married in the C of E prior to 1837. If you want to pursue this, contact me off the list. It has been a few years since I worked on this so I will need to dredge the memory. Janet Sugden Thomas Stamford, CT