Roy, As usual, you have come up with some very helpful information! I have printed this off and will stick it on my wall so it is always handy! Someone else has sent me a link to Hugh Wallis' pages which lets you locate IGI batch numbers - _http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis_ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis) - so the combination is now a fantastic resource which I can actually use!! Thank you so much. Maggie >>1) First you must find out the appropriate batch number for a particular parish. You can do this by doing a place search in the Family History Library Catalogue or by finding an entry that you know to be in that particular parish and calling it up. >>2) Click on the batch number in the screen that gives you the full information. This automatically inserts the batch number into the appropriate box in the IGI search screen with all other fields empty. >>3) Enter the region British Isles AND NOTHING ELSE AT ALL. In other words, leave all the other fields BLANK. Click on Search and you will get the entire register come up, alphabetically! You can then scroll all the way through it in screens of 200 entries at a time - a somewhat cumbersome and tedious process but you may be lucky enough to spot that missing entry you seek "lurking" somewhere in the register in a peculiarly-spelt variant you hadn't even thought of! I have often found "missing" entries with this method that I couldn't find with a conventional search. Mind you, you may have to trawl through several thousand entries. >>Remember - enter the batch number (this is vital) and the region. If you are pretty sure of the date of any event you can enter the year (or with +/- parameters) and get every entry for that particular year or period. However, the important thing is not to enter anything in the first name or last name fields. Try playing about with it - it works!