Hello Roy Thanks for you response. I am not a complete beginner ( active as asker and answerer on a few other lists + a little experience of searching in county records offices/reference libraries down south) but I clearly have much to learn about family history research and about Yorkshire. I should have been more accurate about the FHS I was referring to. I had seen a reference to The City of York and District FHS CD/fiche set of burial records for the West Riding for the early 1800s in an archived posting to this list. I have now checked the CYD FHS website and see that they do sell such a CD but it starts in 1813 - too late for my problem. Getting a look at the National Burial Index does not seem to be too easy as some reference libraries do not hold it or only have Edition 1, but I am pursuing this with my local library ( as well as access to the LDS BVRI which might help me with gaps in the IGI). I will also, as you have helpfully suggested, look at the Yorkshire A S website. Cheers Ian L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [WRY] PICK children - burial 1795-1801 > From: "IAN LOGAN" <ian@logann.orangehome.co.uk> > >> Does some kind person have the YORKS FHS West Riding burials CD or >> fiche covering the period 1795-1801. I would be very grateful if a >> search could be made for burials of any children with surname PICK >> aged infant to 6 in this period anywhere within West Riding. >> >> I am trying to find three "missing" children of John PICK and Ann PICK >> nee HANSON, married St Peter Leeds 1795 and were known to be living in >> Bramham/Boston Spa in 1802.> > > You clearly don't know Yorkshire very well. There is no such thing as a > Yorkshire FHS! Most counties do indeed have just one family history > society but at the last count Yorkshire had 17 of them - or is it 19, I > forget? The county is so vast that there are Yorkshire family history > societies all over the place, many of them in the West Riding. > > Nor is there any such thing as a Yorkshire FHS West Riding burials CD. > There is the National Burial Index 2nd edition which covers England and > Wales, including more than 1 million entries from Yorkshire, and some > Yorkshire societies have their own burial records which they have > transcribed and put onto fiche or CD. > > If your ancestors came from Leeds they would come under the Yorkshire > Archaeological Society's family history and population section, so why > don't you look at their website and see what is available? Use Google > sensibly - that is, or should be, always the first starting point, rather > than > asking vague questions here. > -- > Roy Stockdill > Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies >